Exam 11: The Peculiar Institution

Discuss the relationship between masters and slaves in the American South.Did masters have all the power in this relationship,or did the enslaved exert some power? Points to consider include paternalism,the size of slaveholdings,slavery and the law,forms of slave resistance,and labor organization (task and gang systems).

Slaves working in the fields generally viewed the overseer as a cruel and heartless man.

Black Christianity is best described as a blend of African traditions and Christian beliefs.

MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -John C.Calhoun

Overall,slaves did not think much about freedom.They were content with their situation as long as their master was kind.

In the southern slave society,white women on plantations were seen as weak and helpless.

Denmark Vesey's conspiracy:

As a general rule,slaveowners never allowed their slaves to listen to a white preacher in church.

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -free blacks

Which of the following is a true statement relative to the Upper South and the Deep South?

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -gang labor

Slave rebellions were rare but important.Compare the slave rebellions (merely planned or actually carried out)of Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner.What did Vesey attempt to do? What did Turner attempt to do? How were these men similar? How did they view slavery and freedom? How did white society react to them,and why?

Free blacks in the United States:

In Joseph Taper's letter to Joseph Long,how does Taper analyze his experience of living in Canada?

MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Andrew Johnson

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -plain folk

Discuss the fugitive slave and the different types of escaping (permanent and temporary).How did whites in the North and South react to runaways? What role did the Underground Railroad play?

What role did Christianity play in slavery?

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Underground Railroad

Unlike in Brazil or the West Indies,there was little room for a mulatto group in the United States.