Chapter15

Question 1

As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin
a.
fewer slaves were needed on the plantations.
b.
short-staple cotton lost popularity.
c.
slavery was reinvigorated.
d.
Thomas Jefferson predicted the gradual death of slavery.
e.
the African slave trade was legalized.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Members of the planter aristocracy
a.
produced fewer front-rank statesmen than the North.
b.
dominated society and politics in the South.
c.
provided democratic rule in the South.
d.
promoted tax-supported public education.
e.
kept up with developments in modern thought.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

All the following were true of the American economy under Cotton Kingdom except
a.
cotton accounted for half the value of all American exports after 1840.
b.
the South produced more than half the entire world’s supply of cotton.
c.
75 percent of the British supply of cotton came from the South.
d.
quick profits from cotton drew planters to its economic enterprise.
e.
the South reaped all the profits from the cotton trade.

Answer 3

E

Question 4

Plantation mistresses
a.
had little contact with slaves.
b.
primarily controlled male slaves.
c.
frequently supported abolitionism.
d.
commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves.
e.
were almost universally loved by their slaves.

Answer 4

D

Question 5

The plantation system of the Cotton South was
a.
increasingly monopolistic.
b.
efficient at utilizing natural resources.
c.
financially stable.
d.
attractive to European immigrants.
e.
unable to expand westward.

Answer 5

A

Question 6

European immigration to the South was discouraged by
a.
competition with slave labor.
b.
southern anti-Catholicism.
c.
Irish antislavery groups.
d.
immigration barriers enacted by southern states.
e.
their inability to tolerate the hot climate.

Answer 6

A

Question 7

By 1860, three-quarters of all southern whites did not own slaves, but instead
a.
lived and worked in the emerging cities of the South.
b.
eked out a living in the mountains and backcountry raising corn and hogs.
c.
owned small farms where they and their families raised cotton.
d.
farmed a mixture of wheat, tobacco and cotton.
e.
None of these

Answer 7

B

Question 8

By the mid-nineteenth century
a.
most southerners owned slaves.
b.
the smaller slaveholders owned a majority of the slaves.
c.
most slaves lived on large plantations.
d.
slavery was a dying institution.
e.
southerners were growing defensive about slavery.

Answer 8

C

Question 9

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by
a.
Susan B. Anthony.
b.
Lucrecia Mott.
c.
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
d.
Margaret Fuller.
e.
Harriet Tubman.

Answer 9

C

Question 10

The majority of southern whites owned no slaves because
a.
they opposed slavery.
b.
they could not afford the purchase price.
c.
their urban location did not require them.
d.
their racism would not allow them to work alongside African Americans.
e.
they feared the possibility of slave revolts.

Answer 10

B

Question 11

The most pro-Union of the white southerners were
a.
plantation owners.
b.
mountain whites.
c.
small slaveowners.
d.
nonslaveowning subsistence farmers.
e.
people with northern economic interests.

Answer 11

B

Question 12

Some southern slaves gained their freedom as a result of
a.
the prohibition of the Atlantic slave trade after 1807.
b.
purchase by northern abolitionists.
c.
fleeing to mountain hideaways.
d.
purchasing their way out of slavery with money earned after hours.
e.
the objection to slaveholding by some white women.

Answer 12

D

Question 13

Northern attitudes toward free blacks can best be described as
a.
supporting their right to full citizenship.
b.
disliking the race but liking individual blacks.
c.
advocating black movement into the new territories.
d.
politically sympathetic but socially segregationist.
e.
disliking the individuals but liking the race.

Answer 13

E

Question 14

For free blacks living in the North
a.
living conditions were nearly equal to those for whites.
b.
voting rights were widespread.
c.
good jobs were plentiful.
d.
education opened the door to economic opportunity.
e.
discrimination was common.

Answer 14

E

Question 15

The profitable southern slave system
a.
hobbled the economic development of the region as a whole.
b.
saw many slaves moving to the upper South.
c.
led to the textile industry’s development in the South first.
d.
relied almost totally on importing slaves to meet the unquenchable demand for labor.
e.
enabled the South to afford economic and educational progress.

Answer 15

A

Question 16

Slavery’s greatest psychological horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was
a.
the enforced separation of slave families, whose members could be sold away from each other.
b.
slaveowners’ frequent use of the whip.
c.
the breeding of slaves.
d.
having to do the most dangerous work on the plantation.
e.
forcible sexual assault by slaveowners.

Answer 16

A

Question 17

Forced separation of spouses, parents, and children was most common
a.
in the Deep South.
b.
on the large plantations.
c.
on small plantations and in the upper South.
d.
in the decade before the Civil War.
e.
as a punishment for running away.

Answer 17

C

Question 18

Most slaves were raised
a.
without the benefit of a stable home life.
b.
in stable two-parent households.
c.
never knowing anything about their relatives.
d.
not to display their African cultural roots.
e.
without religion.

Answer 18

B

Question 19

In the pre-Civil War South, the most uncommon and least successful form of slave resistance was
a.
feigned laziness.
b.
sabotage of plantation equipment.
c.
running away.
d.
armed insurrection.
e.
stealing food and other goods.

Answer 19

D

Question 20

The idea of transporting blacks back to Africa was
a.
a recognition of blacks’ desire to preserve their culture.
b.
never carried out.
c.
advocated by Frederick Douglass.
d.
proposed by the African nation of Liberia.
e.
an expression of widespread American racism.

Answer 20

E

Question 21

Match each abolitionist below with his publication.
A.
William Lloyd Garrison
1.
Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
B.
Theodore Dwight Weld
2.
The Liberator
C.
Frederick Douglass
3.
Narration of the Life of ____
D.
David Walker
4.
American Slavery as It Is
a.
A-4, B-1, C-3, D-2
b.
A-2, B-4, C-3, D-1
c.
A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1
d.
A-1, B-3, C-2, D-4
e.
A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3

Answer 21

B

Question 22

William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to
a.
shipping freed blacks back to Africa.
b.
outlawing the slave trade.
c.
preventing the expansion of slavery beyond the South.
d.
forming an antislavery political party.
e.
the immediate abolition of slavery in the South.

Answer 22

E

Question 23

Those in the North who opposed the abolitionists believed that these opponents of slavery
a.
were creating disorder in America.
b.
were defending the American way of life.
c.
deserved the right to speak freely.
d.
had turned their backs on religion.
e.
were undermining fundamental American beliefs.

Answer 23

A

Question 24

Even those who did not own slaves in the pre-Civil War South supported that institution because they
a.
dreamed of one day owning slaves themselves.
b.
presumed themselves racially superior to black slaves.
c.
were always economically better off than slaves.
d.
were closely related to people who did own slaves.
e.
benefited from the economic growth of the region.

Answer 24

A,B

Question 25

The slave culture was characterized by
a.
the breakdown of black family life.
b.
frequent intermarriage between slaves who were close relatives.
c.
a hybrid religion of Christian and African elements.
d.
widespread illiteracy among slaves.
e.
subtle forms of resistance to slavery.

Answer 25

C,D,E