Exam 9: The Old South, 1790-1850

In 1860, the value of southern slaves exceeded the investments in banking, railroads, and manufacturing combined.

A common calculation that separated planters from yeoman farmers was that a planter owned

In 1790, Chesapeake planters saw falling prices for

Cotton belt planters did little to improve the cultivation of cotton.

Under the task system in the eighteenth century, a slave was expected to tend four acres of rice daily.

The most intensely commercialized farms in the world were found in the Chesapeake.

"Georgia traders" were speculators who bought slaves in ____ and sold them in the lower South.

The primary reason Chesapeake slaves were sold was

By ____________________ most blacks considered themselves Christians.

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

Between 1780 and 1810, the slave population in Virginia saw a decrease in free blacks but an increase in enslaved blacks.

How did Christianity affect southern slaves?

In the 1830s, the South produced three-fourths of the world's supply of ____________________.

By 1820 there were roughly ____________________ independent African American churches.

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

Denmark Vesey was betrayed by slaves.

Slaves were able to negotiate and gain privileges.

The inventor of the cotton gin was

Between 1790 and 1850, the southern planters became more dependent on Spain.

For the most part, owners ____ slave marriages.