Exam 9: The Old South, 1790-1850

Examine the slave culture that flourished in the nineteenth-century United States.

Under the task system in the eighteenth century,a slave could win the right to cultivate land as "private fields."

Chesapeake slaves had the lowest reproduction rate among all slaves.

After 1820,southern state laws gave slaves the right to

Slaves in the cotton belt worked longer and harder than slaves in the Chesapeake.

In 1860,the southern slave population was collectively worth $1.3 billion.

A common calculation between planters and farmers was a planter owned twenty slaves.

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

Southern slaves

North American slaves seldom went into organized,armed revolt.

All of the following states became net exporters of slaves except

____________________ was a mistress of Thomas Jefferson and had several children by him.

____________________ and Savannah were the two major ports for slaves from Africa.

In 1820,there were roughly 300 independent black churches.

The whipping of slaves was

For the most part,owners ____ slave marriages.

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

____________________ is the act of freeing slaves either upon the death of the owner or even while the owner is still alive.

The Denmark Vesey slave revolt failed when

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