Exam 9: The Old South

In 1790, Chesapeake planters saw falling prices for

Few yeoman farmers in the south were wholly subject to market fluctuations.

The slave who plotted a revolt while he was a leading member in a Methodist congregation was_____________.

In 1860, only_____________ percent of slave owners owned 20 or more slaves.

By the Civil War three out of four white southern families did not own a single slave.

In the counties of upland Georgia, most farmers owned slaves.

Slave marriages

By 1834, the cotton belt produced more than half of the cotton in the United States.

The Hammond Quarterly was the principal southern business journal.

The large slave rebellion that began in Southampton, Virginia, in 1831 under the leadership of a Baptist lay minister was known as the

At Thomas Jefferson's Monticello slave children were sold as soon as they could work.

Slave families were always

When the international slave trade ended, an internal slave trade developed.

Nat Turner began his slave revolt after seeing a(n)_____________.

In 1790, Chesapeake planters saw falling prices for_____________.

Compared to long-staple cotton, short-staple cotton was more hardy.

In slave kinship, nonrelatives were called "brother," "sister," "aunt," and "uncle."

Explore the various slave rebellions of the early nineteenth century.

Slaveholders were committed to paternalism that sought to make slaves Christian.

Between 1780 and 1810, the slave population in Virginia saw