Question 1

Though the trade and sale of slaves continued to be legal inside the U.S.until the Civil War,the "slave trade"-that is,the importation of slaves from Africa or any other foreign locale-was made illegal in

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A)   1812.
B)   1808.
C)   1809.
D)   1815.
E)   None of these answers is correct.F) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 2

Tobacco cultivation in the antebellum South

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

Question 3

The slave system may have created separate spheres for blacks and whites,but each race was nonetheless dependent on the other.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Between 1840 and 1860,the American South's slave population

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A)   became concentrated in the upper South.
B)   dramatically shifted into the Southwest.
C)   changed little.
D)   could not meet the South's labor needs.
E)   declined in overall numbers.F) B) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 5

Describe the distinguishing class features of the people who were known as "planters," "plain folk," "hill people," or "crackers."

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Question 6

Approximately one-third of southern whites owned slaves.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Which of the following statements regarding slave life is true?

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A)   It was uncommon to divide slave families for long periods of time.
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)   After 1808, the proportion of blacks to whites in the nation steadily declined.
E)   Slaves had to grow all of their own food.F) C) and D)
G) C) and E)

Question 8

The slave codes of the American South

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A)   banned blacks from attending church.
B)   were rigidly enforced.
C)   defined anyone with a trace of African ancestry as black.
D)   legalized slave marriages.
E)   considered it a crime for an owner to kill a slave.F) A) and C)
G) B) and D)

Question 9

Southern whites who did not own slaves

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A)   generally opposed the institution of slavery.
B)   openly opposed the planter elite.
C)   were largely dependent on the plantation economy.
D)   rarely married into the families living on large slave plantations.
E)   were forced to move west to maintain a livelihood.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 10

In the 1850s,the southern social theorist George Fitzhugh wrote that women

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A)   None of these answers is correct.
B)   should be the manager of home affairs, while men managed business affairs.
C)   had an obligation to speak their minds.
D)   possessed as many rights as men.
E)   were like children.F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 11

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Sexual relationships between white southern men and female slaves was

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A)   against the law in all slave states.
B)   a common practice.
C)   virtually unheard of.
D)   an accepted cause for divorce in the southern court system.
E)   encouraged by proponents of slavery such as George Fitzhugh.F) A) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 13

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

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Question 14

The southern planter class exercised power far in excess of its numbers.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

The southern planter class was quite similar to the landed aristocracies of Europe.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

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

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

Question 17

The mountain regions were the only parts of the South to resist the movement toward secession when it finally developed.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

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

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There were several obstacles to industri...

Question 19

Which of the following statements regarding urban slavery is FALSE?

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A)   Urban slaves were prohibited from having contact with free blacks.
B)   Some urban slaves were skilled trade workers.
C)   Urban slaves were less supervised than rural slaves.
D)   The line between slavery and freedom in cities was less distinct.
E)   Urban slaves in the South had little working competition from European immigrants.F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 20

Slaves were expected by their owners to attend church.

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A) True 
 B)False

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Southern whites who did not own slaves

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Which of the following statements regarding slave life is true?

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