Question 1

Ways in which slaves expressed elements of their African heritage included

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A)  singing songs and playing musical instruments such as the banjo.
B)  keeping family diaries and other written personal records.
C)  wearing clothing which incorporated traditional African designs or colors.
D)  speaking in their native African languages when out of the presence of whites.
E)  celebrating traditional African feasts and rites of passage, in defiance of white law.F) A) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 2

Prior to 1860, how did the role and status of Southern women compare to that of Northern women?

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Question 3

What is the difference between slave resistance and slave rebellion? Why was one more prevalent than the other?

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Question 4

Approximately, one-third of Southern whites owned slaves.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Southern women generally had final authority on issues related to the home and children.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Prior to 1860, free blacks in the South

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A)  were concentrated in the Deep South.
B)  were required by law to leave the South.
C)  increased in number in the 1850s as laws encouraged owners to free "surplus" slaves.
D)  occasionally attained wealth and prominence and owned slaves themselves.
E)  avoided urban centers such as New Orleans or Natchez where they might attract attention.F) D) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 7

The North, unlike the South, experienced great economic growth in the mid-nineteenth century.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Which of the following statements about the poorest class of white Southerners is FALSE?

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A)  They often felt affinity with slaves as members of another oppressed class.
B)  They were known variously as "crackers" or "sand hillers."
C)  They supported themselves by foraging or hunting.
D)  They suffered from pellagra, hookworm, and malaria.
E)  They were forced to resort at times to eating clay.F) None of the above
G) B) and D)

Question 9

_________________ was the leader of an aborted slave revolt in South Carolina in the early 1820s.

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Question 10

Household servants were often the first to leave plantations of their former owners when emancipation came after the Civil War.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Most enslaved black couples married with formal wedding vows.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Prior to 1860, the center of economic power in the South

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A)  was in Charleston, S.C.
B)  remained as it had been primarily within the upper South.
C)  remained as it had been primarily within the lower South.
D)  shifted from the lower South to the upper South.
E)  shifted from the upper South to the lower South.F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 13

Which of the following statements regarding slave life is TRUE?

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A)  Slaves had to grow all of their own food.
B)  Slaves were not given medical care except by their own efforts.
C)  Slave children did no work until they turned twelve years old.
D)  It was uncommon to divide slave families for long periods of time.
E)  After 1808, the proportion of blacks to whites in the nation steadily declined.F) A) and B)
G) B) and C)

Question 14

Most often, resistance to slavery took the form of open rebellion.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

What were the differences between being a slave in the city and a slave in the country?

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Question 16

Tobacco cultivation in the antebellum South

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A)  was easy on the soil.
B)  was gradually moving westward.
C)  enjoyed a stable market.
D)  was centered in the lower South.
E)  never made a profit.F) A) and C)
G) D) and E)

Question 17

_______________ led the only actual slave revolt in the United States in the nineteenth century.

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Question 18

What obstacles to industrialization existed in the South during the nineteenth century?

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Question 19

Evidence suggests that slaves preferred to live on smaller, rather than larger, plantations.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Prior to 1860, Southern white women

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A)  had about the same access to education as Northern white women.
B)  were not expected to engage in manual labor whatever their social standing.
C)  generally lived lives that were isolated from the wider world.
D)  had a birth rate that was lower than the national average.
E)  were more likely to see their children grow to adulthood than Northern white women.F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

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Most often, resistance to slavery took the form of open rebellion.

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The North, unlike the South, experienced great economic growth in the mid-nineteenth century.

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Most enslaved black couples married with formal wedding vows.

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Ways in which slaves expressed elements of their African heritage included

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Southern women generally had final authority on issues related to the home and children.

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