Chapter 8 Part B - The south And Slavery

Question 1

Who was given credit for inventing the cotton “gin”?

Answer 1

Eli Whitney

Question 2

What is the Phase that depicted the importance of cotton in the world economy?

Answer 2

Cotton is King

Question 3

What was the secretive nature of slave religion referred to as?

Answer 3

The Invisible Institution

Question 4

What is the type of trade where slaves were sold from the eastern slave sates to plantation in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana?

Answer 4

Internal Slave Trade

Question 5

What was the term given to those slaves who accepted, cared and protected the newly acquired slaves?

Answer 5

Fictive Kin

Question 6

What is the name given to a man who manages the work of 50 slaves on a large plantation?

Answer 6

Overseer

Question 7

What is the name for the set of rules that restricted the movement and freedom of slaves?

Answer 7

Slave codes

Question 8

What are the songs of bondage, hope and freedom called that were sung by slaves?

Answer 8

Spirituals

Question 9

What is the name of the famous abolitionists who were the editor of the North Star newspaper?

Answer 9

Frederick Douglass

Question 10

What was the name that was given to the places that slaves were hidden while trying to escape along the Underground Railroad?

Answer 10

Stations

Question 11

What slave led a slave revolt in 1831 in Virginia and as a result southern states passed much stricter Black codes?

Answer 11

Nat Turner

Question 12

What is the law where slaves who were caught trying to escape had to be returned to their owner?

Answer 12

Fugitive slave law

Question 13

What is the place in Lexington, Kentucky where slaves were bought and sold?

Answer 13

Cheapside Slave Auction Block

Question 14

What is the phrase used by plantation slaves were they outwardly used a cheerful and carefree manner to hide their resentment?

Answer 14

“Put n on old Massa”

Question 15

What is the program, that was supported by Jefferson, Madison and Clay that wanted to return blacks to Africa?

Answer 15

American colonization Society

Question 16

Who was the First African American newspaper, that was published by Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm, in American History?

Answer 16

Freedom Journal

Question 17

What is the name of the woman who was a major part of the Underground Railroad and nicknamed “Grandma Moses” for her heroic efforts?

Answer 17

Harriet Tubman

Question 18

What is the name of the social institution that was the major difference in the 1850’s that separated the north and the south?

Answer 18

Slavery

Question 19

What is the name of the slave who managed the work of 10 slaves on a large plantation?

Answer 19

Drivers

Question 20

What is the name for a series of secret routes from the south through the north and onto Canada?

Answer 20

Underground Railroad

Question 21

What is the invention that stimulated the increase in cotton production and slavery in the south?

Answer 21

Cotton Gin

Question 22

What was the name given to the people who led escaping slaves from one hiding place to the next hiding place?

Answer 22

Conductors

Question 23

What is the name given to the type of slaves that worked out in the cotton fields from sun up to sun down?

Answer 23

Field Slaves

Question 24

What is the name of the people in the south whose wealth and power were so great.

Answer 24

Large Plantation owners

Question 25

What is the name of the southern region that became the center of the cotton growing empire?

Answer 25

Old Southwest