In arguing for the continuation of slavery after 1830, Southerners
placed themselves in opposition to much of the rest of the Western world
As a result of white southerners' brutal treatment of their slaves and their fear of potential slave rebellions, the South
developed a theory of biological racial superiority
William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to
the immediate abolition of slavery in the South
By 1860, slaves were concentrated in the "black belt" located in the
Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, & Louisiana
As a substitute for the wage-incentive system, slaveowners most often used the
whip as a motivator
The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due to
natural reproduction
Members of the planter aristocracy.
dominated society and politics in the South
Slaves fought the system of slavery in all of the following ways except by
refusing to get an education
For free blacks living in the North,
discrimination was common
Regarding work assignments, slaves were
generally spared dangerous work
Which one of the following has least in common with the other four? *
John Quincy Adams
Those in the North who opposed abolitionists believed that these opponents of slavery
were creating disorder in America
As their main crop, southern subsistence farmers raised
corn
Many abolitionists turned to political action in 1840 when they backed the _____ presidential candidate of the
Liberty party
Some southern slaves gained their freedorn as a result of
purchasing their way out of slavery
By the mid-nineteenth century,
most slaves lived on large plantations
In the pre-Civil War South, the most uncommon and least successful form of slave resistance was
armed insurrection.
Most slaves were raised
in stable two-person households
Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because
Its excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled good land
Northern attitudes toward free blacks can best be described as
considerably racist
German and Irish immigration to the South was discouraged by
competition with slave labor
The idea of transporting blacks back to Africa was
the result of the widespread loathing of blacks in America
The majority of southern whites owned no slaves because
they could not afford the purchase price
The most pro-Union of the white southerners
mountain whites
All of the following were weaknesses of the slave plantation system except that
Its land continued to remain in the hands of the small farmers
Perhaps the slave's greatest horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, was
the forced separation of slave families
As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin
slavery was reinvigorated.
The profitable southem slave system.
hobbled the economic development of the region as a whole
Plantation mistresses
commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves.
Most white southerners were
nonslaveowning subsistence farmers
The plantation system of the Cotton South was
Increasingly monopolistic
Forced separation of spouses, parents, and children was most common
on small plantations and in the upper South