Exam 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

In southern cities,slave tasks might include mining,lumbering,blacksmith,or carpentry.

Of the following,the most common form of resistance to slavery was

Describe the lives of most free blacks in the South and how they changed over the half-century leading up to the Civil War.

Prior to 1860,southern aristocratic ideals were largely myths.

The South had an inadequate transportation system and only a rudimentary financial system as late as the middle of the nineteenth century.

Prior to 1860,free blacks in the South

The southern planter class exercised power far in excess of its numbers.

Most enslaved black couples married with formal wedding vows.

In the 1850s,the southern social theorist George Fitzhugh wrote that women

Slave codes effectively prevented slaves from owning property.

Prior to 1860,affluent southern white women

The slave family lacked legal marriage.Nevertheless,the "________" consistently emerged as the dominant kinship model among African Americans.

To "manumit" means to

During the first half of the nineteenth century,the "cotton kingdom"

When emancipation came after the Civil War,it was often the ________ who were the first to leave the plantation of their former owners.

Describe the nature of slave codes and the legal justifications that southern states and owners used for the institution of slavery.

During the first half of the nineteenth century,the South underwent a much less fundamental transformation than did the North.

Prior to 1860,southern women differed from northern women in that they

The most important new product in the South during the mid-nineteenth century was ________ cotton.

________ was the leader of an aborted slave revolt in South Carolina in the early 1820s.