Exam 9: The Old South, 1790-1850

Masters or their sons carried as many as __________________ percent of slaves to the new lands of the cotton belt.

The leader of the aborted slave rebellion in South Carolina in 1822 was

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

In regards to American slaves and Christianity

Slave marriages

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

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

The Hammond Quarterly was the principal southern business journal.

The primary crop of the low country was ____________________.

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

A large group of southern farmers practiced ____________________ farming.

Southern slaves

Antebellum southern society placed its greatest importance on

In the Chesapeake slave system a majority of women worked as domestic servants.

Southern yeoman farm communities relied largely on ____________________ for business transactions.

Under the task system in the early nineteenth century, a slave was expected to tend ____ acre(s) of rice daily.

Between 1780 and 1810, the slave population in Virginia saw

A slave revolt by ____________________ was betrayed by slaves.

In the early nineteenth century, Georgia rice planters were among the richest Americans.

Diseases on southern coastal plantations kept masters and overseers out of the fields.