Chapter 10-13 Slavery in the South

Question 1

What fuels the industrial revolution in America?

Answer 1

textiles

Question 2

What is the advantage of interchangeable parts?

Answer 2

faster manufacturing

Question 3

When did the importation of slaves end?

Answer 3

1820

Question 4

Why what was the nickname of the South?

Answer 4

King Cotton

Question 5

How many slaves were involved in cotton growing in 1850?

Answer 5

55%

Question 6

What was the Gang System?

Answer 6

a large group of slaves working all day

Question 7

What was one way to threaten slaves?

Answer 7

“sold down the river” to a harsher climate

Question 8

What type of slaves are more informed and treated for the most part better.

Answer 8

The house servants

Question 9

What is the average life expectancy of whites?

Answer 9

43

Question 10

What is the average life expectancy of blacks?

Answer 10

30

Question 11

How many slave marriages were broken up?

Answer 11

1 in 5

Question 12

What did the second great awakening do?

Answer 12

it spread Christianity to the slaves

Question 13

What type of slave rebellion is hidden Covert or Overt?

Answer 13

Covert

Question 14

What were the biggest slave rebellions?(3)

Answer 14

Nat Turner, Gabrielle, Vesey

Question 15

Why would free slaves stay in the South?(2)

Answer 15

they may have family or they may have a job

Question 16

What was the purpose of the Black Codes?

Answer 16

to regulate free blacks.

Question 17

What was the effect of Black Codes on Blacks?

Answer 17

they had little civil rights

Question 18

What is a Yeoman?

Answer 18

a small farmer who works his own fields

Question 19

What is the largest percentage group of the population in the South?

Answer 19

the Yeoman

Question 20

What was considered the richest county in America in 1850?

Answer 20

Natchez, Mississippi

Question 21

What did William Lloyd Garrison do?

Answer 21

he wrote the Liberator against slavery

Question 22

What was the gag rule?

Answer 22

congress cannot bring up anything about slavery

Question 23

What did the Grimke Sisters do?

Answer 23

they spoke out against slavery

Question 24

What areas are in the black belt?

Answer 24

Western Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi

Question 25

What was Alabama Fever?

Answer 25

The mass movement of southerners into Alabama

Question 26

How was Southern Slavery and Northern Industry linked?

Answer 26

The North invested in Southern cotton farming.

Question 27

Why were southern states loosing their political dominance?

Answer 27

The population of the north was growing much more rapidly.

Question 28

What were slaves gathered in before they were sold?

Answer 28

Slave pens

Question 29

What percent of slaves were field slaves?

Answer 29

75%

Question 30

How were slaves forced to work on the fields?

Answer 30

They were whipped.

Question 31

Why were house slaves the first ones to leave?

Answer 31

They were more in the know than the ones out on the field and they commonly did not have other African Americans with them at all.

Question 32

Why might a slave owner allow slaves to marry?

Answer 32

They will produce more future slaves.

Question 33

What movement brought Christianity to slaves?

Answer 33

The second great awakening.

Question 34

What were black codes?

Answer 34

Laws concerning free black people

Question 35

What was a crucial element in the rapid growth of cotton production between 1790 and 1840?

Answer 35

the technological innovation that occurred in Great Britain

Question 36

As a result of large scale cotton production in the South all the money was where?

Answer 36

in the land in slaves

Question 37

The organization of slave labor on large plantation were

Answer 37

the gang system

Question 38

The result of slaves' existence was what?

Answer 38

the development of strong familial and nonkinship relationships

Question 39

The ideology that southerners developed to rationalize their treatment of slaves was what?

Answer 39

paternalism

Question 40

The paternalistic view of slavery held that?:

Answer 40

slavery was necessary to protect blacks from the mistreatment and abuse they would receive if they were freed.

Question 41

Hinton R. Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South was intended as?:

Answer 41

an argument against slavery as an economic institution.

Question 42

Antislavery sentiment underlay the formation in 1840 of the?:

Answer 42

Liberty Party.

Question 43

Which was true of free blacks living in the North during the thirty years prior to the Civil War?:

Answer 43

racial tensions often exploded into riots

Question 44

The American Colonization Society was an antislavery organization that?:

Answer 44

advocated the forced shipment of freed slaves to Africa.

Question 45

William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to?:

Answer 45

the immediate abolition of slavery in the South

Question 46

What was the main result of the rapid growth of American cities during this period?

Answer 46

the deepening of sharp class differences

Question 47

The temperance movement resulted in what?

Answer 47

a sharp drop in the per capita consumption of alcohol

Question 48

The area of upstate New York that experienced numerous waves of reform was known as the what district?

Answer 48

Burned-over district

Question 49

The first American college to allow African American and female students was?

Answer 49

Oberlin

Question 50

What was an effective way Americans responded to the market economy?

Answer 50

by developing a deep and profound passion for improving society

Question 51

What is the name of the slave ship that escaped American and Spanish control by a slave rebellion?

Answer 51

Amistad

Question 52

Who wrote American Slavery as it is?

Answer 52

Theodore Dwight Weld and the Grimke Sisters

Question 53

What happened at the Astor Place Riot?

Answer 53

a riot in a theatre in New York between immigrants and native born

Question 54

What are Big City Machines?

Answer 54

Large Scale formal governments inside of a city.

Question 55

What religion did Brigam Young promote and where did he promote it?

Answer 55

Mormonism in Utah

Question 56

What did Catherine Beecher want?

Answer 56

women's education

Question 57

What was the main characteristic of the Oneida community?

Answer 57

a weird system of family systems and marriage

Question 58

What document was a copy of the Declaration of Independence but for women and where was it written?

Answer 58

Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention

Question 59

Who led the asylum movement and fought for women rights?

Answer 59

Dorothea Dix

Question 60

What is the name for promoting Christianity?

Answer 60

Evangilism

Question 61

What institution fought for rights of women and countered prostitution?

Answer 61

Female Reform Society

Question 62

Who was the leader of the second great Awakening?

Answer 62

Finney Charles

Question 63

What did Harris Mann want?

Answer 63

a reform of education

Question 64

What mormon leader was killed?

Answer 64

Joseph Smith

Question 65

Who wrote the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator?

Answer 65

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 66

What were the millerites?

Answer 66

a break off group of society who felt that Jesus would come in 1843

Question 67

What did the Missouri Compromise do?

Answer 67

prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.