Exam 11: The Peculiar Institution

Discuss the fugitive slave and the different types of escaping (permanent and temporary).How did whites in the North and South react to runaways? What role did the Underground Railroad play?

Fugitive slaves:

The Haitian slave revolt was successful and the attempts by Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner ultimately failed because:

In the nineteenth century,which product was the world's major crop produced by slave labor?

What was the Underground Railroad?

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -overseer

Southern farmers in the backcountry:

From 1800 to 1860,which of the following occurred to the South and its economy?

The plantation masters had many means to maintain order among their slaves.According to the text,what was the most powerful weapon the plantation masters had?

The relationship between rich southern planters and poor southern farmers:

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -paternalism

Most white southern families owned at least one slave.

What resulted from the sexual exploitation of slave women?

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -John Quincy Adams

Which event is credited with helping to ingrain the paternalist ethos more deeply into the lives of southern slaveholders?

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Israel Hill

In 1860,what percentage of southern white families were in the slaveowning class?

Discuss the relationship between masters and slaves in the American South.Did masters have all the power in this relationship,or did the enslaved exert some power? Points to consider include paternalism,the size of slaveholdings,slavery and the law,forms of slave resistance,and labor organization (task and gang systems).

Northerners who were not abolitionists did what in regards to slavery?

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -white gold