Exam 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

In the first half of the nineteenth century,why did cotton become the major economic crop of the American South?

Society in the antebellum South placed the plantation owner at the top of the social order.

Most white southerners owned

Slave spirituals were written down and passed on to generations of African Americans.

One actual slave revolt that resulted in numerous white deaths in the nineteenth-century South was led by

Southern,white,lower-class resentment of the aristocratic system was most likely to be found in

The nuclear family was the dominant kinship model among the slaves of the South.

Sexual relationships between white southern men and female slaves was

For the most part,slaves rejected Christianity.

Southern white women had less access to education than their northern counterparts.

Slaves were expected by their owners to attend church.

The South may have failed to develop a large industrial economy due to all the following factors EXCEPT

In the South,the most significant opposition to the slave system came from the poorest of southern whites.

The mountain regions were the only parts of the South to resist the movement toward secession when it finally developed.

The banjo was an important instrument in slave music.

From the 1830s on,state laws governing slavery became gradually less rigid.

Ways in which slaves expressed elements of their African heritage included

Prior to 1860,how did the role and status of southern women compare to that of northern women?