Question 1

Before universal manhood suffrage became more common in the 1820s, Southern politics was largely controlled by __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   the slave-owning elite
B)   southern land speculators
C)   the professional class
D)   the small slave owners

Question 2

Who deserves the most credit for ameliorating the inhumane conditions created by the southern slave system?

Accepted Answer

A)   African Americans
B)   plantation mistresses
C)   southern state lawmakers
D)   northern abolitionists

Question 3

Which statement best explains why yeoman farmers with no slaves still supported the slave system that mainly benefited wealthy planters?

Accepted Answer

A)   Planters and non‒slave-owning yeomen shared a belief in white skin privilege.
B)   The democratization of politics made the gap between rich and poor largely disappear.
C)   Non‒slave owners often became as wealthy as or wealthier than slave-owning planters.
D)   Yeoman farmers saw capitalism and industrialization, not farming with slave labor, as their best path to wealth.

Question 4

One reason for the persistence of slavery in the South was that __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   a child born of a slave was legally a slave
B)   the international slave trade grew rapidly after 1808
C)   free blacks were seized and enslaved
D)   Indian slaves replaced black slaves after 1808

Question 5

About what percentage of the slave population of the Upper South was uprooted and sold to the Lower South in the internal slave trade between 1820 and 1860?

Accepted Answer

A)   50 percent
B)   10 percent
C)   25 percent
D)   90 percent

Question 6

From the 1830s onward, how did the southern slave system change?

Accepted Answer

A)   Slaves cost more, so class divisions increased.
B)   Slave prices fell, and more Southerners became slave owners.
C)   The plantation system became most profitable in the Upper South.
D)   Slavery became increasingly unprofitable in the Lower South.

Question 7

What was the lasting effect that slave revolts had on white Southerners?

Accepted Answer

A)   Whites believed they could never be completely safe from slave revolts.
B)   To white southerners, slave rebellions were trivial because they always ended in defeat for the slaves involved and did not result in white fatalities.
C)   Local legal officials and white slaveowners banned slaves from participating in organized religious ceremonies or from listening to black preachers.
D)   White slave owners began to make offers of manumission to larger numbers of slaves after Nat Turner's rebellion ended so that their slaves would stop organizing additional revolts.

Question 8

Why were southern yeomen so resistant to the forces of capitalism and industrialization that shaped the lives of northern farmers?

Accepted Answer

A)   They perceived these developments as encroachments on their own personal freedom.
B)   They believed these developments reinforced slavery in the South.
C)   They thought these developments made the planter society in the South even richer.
D)   They understood that accepting these developments would only widen the economic gap between their own class and poor whites.

Question 9

Which statement best describes the actions of state legislatures throughout the South in the 1830s?

Accepted Answer

A)   Legislatures tightened restrictions on both free and enslaved African Americans.
B)   Legislatures encouraged manumission by offering tax incentives to free slaves.
C)   Legislatures debated the merits of the gradual abolition of slavery, but ultimately took no action.
D)   Legislatures took steps to re-enslave some free African Americans and force others to migrate to the North.

Question 10

The expansion of slavery in the Old Southwest was directly linked to __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   the expansion of cotton production
B)   the growth of a diverse economy
C)   rapid urbanization
D)   the international slave trade

Question 11

Why were planters around Natchez, Mississippi, known by the Hindi term "nabob"?

Accepted Answer

A)   The Hindi word described Europeans who had amassed fabulous wealth in India.
B)   Many of them had first made their fortunes in India.
C)   Mississippi, like India, based its wealth on cotton.
D)   Well-educated Southerners commonly referenced historical "great empires" to describe their society.

Question 12

The U.S. Constitution __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   explicitly legalizes slavery
B)   refers to slavery in three places, but only indirectly
C)   ignores the issue of slavery altogether
D)   gives Congress the power to regulate slavery in the states

Question 13

The term "plain folk" was used to refer to __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   the urban middle class
B)   planters
C)   yeoman farmers
D)   the landless poor

Question 14

Which statement best describes how the expansion of cotton production in the South affected industry in the North?

Accepted Answer

A)   Profits from the slave trade and cotton shipping and brokerage provided capital for new factories in the North.
B)   Northern industry declined as most southern cotton was shipped to England.
C)   Wealthy Northerners chose to invest in southern plantations rather than in factories in the North.
D)   Many successful planters invested their profits in northern industry and abandoned cotton planting.

Question 15

The planter elite consciously worked to create a lifestyle that resembled the __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   French aristocracy
B)   Creole aristocracy
C)   English aristocracy
D)   newly rich in the North

Question 16

Prior to the Civil War, what fraction of white families owned slaves?

Accepted Answer

A)   one-tenth
B)   one-third
C)   two-fifths
D)   two-thirds

Question 17

Which statement best describes how the majority of the southern slaveholding elite in the 1830s had acquired their wealth?

Accepted Answer

A)   Almost all slave owners had inherited their wealth.
B)   Almost all slave owners were self-made men.
C)   About half of the slave owners inherited great wealth, and about half earned it.
D)   Slave owners nearly all first made their fortunes in business before they bought slaves.

Question 18

Which of these best explains the rapid growth of the slave population in the American South relative to other nineteenth-century New World slave societies?

Accepted Answer

A)   higher fertility of enslaved African American women
B)   better food given to African American slaves
C)   greater number of slaves imported from Africa
D)   better housing provided to African American slaves

Question 19

Hinton Rowan Helper's The Impending Crisis (1857)  was __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   an attack on northern abolitionists and manufacturers
B)   an attack on slavery by a native Southerner
C)   an attack on slavery by a northern abolitionist
D)   a protest against the congressional "gag rule"

Question 20

A common defense of the institution of slavery by slave owners was that __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   slaves were treated better than northern industrial workers
B)   slaves were becoming Christianized and thus their souls would be saved
C)   slave children played with white children
D)   slaves lived better on southern plantations than the natives in Africa

Exam 10: The South and Slavery

Why were southern yeomen so resistant to the forces of capitalism and industrialization that shaped the lives of northern farmers?

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Which statement best describes the actions of state legislatures throughout the South in the 1830s?

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Which statement best explains why yeoman farmers with no slaves still supported the slave system that mainly benefited wealthy planters?

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A common defense of the institution of slavery by slave owners was that __________.

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The term "plain folk" was used to refer to __________.

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The planter elite consciously worked to create a lifestyle that resembled the __________.

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Who deserves the most credit for ameliorating the inhumane conditions created by the southern slave system?

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The U.S. Constitution __________.

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The expansion of slavery in the Old Southwest was directly linked to __________.

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Which of these best explains the rapid growth of the slave population in the American South relative to other nineteenth-century New World slave societies?

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Which statement best describes how the majority of the southern slaveholding elite in the 1830s had acquired their wealth?

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What was the lasting effect that slave revolts had on white Southerners?

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Before universal manhood suffrage became more common in the 1820s, Southern politics was largely controlled by __________.

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Which statement best describes how the expansion of cotton production in the South affected industry in the North?

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Prior to the Civil War, what fraction of white families owned slaves?

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About what percentage of the slave population of the Upper South was uprooted and sold to the Lower South in the internal slave trade between 1820 and 1860?

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Hinton Rowan Helper's The Impending Crisis (1857) was __________.

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From the 1830s onward, how did the southern slave system change?

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Why were planters around Natchez, Mississippi, known by the Hindi term "nabob"?

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One reason for the persistence of slavery in the South was that __________.

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