Question 1

Prior to 1860,how did the role and status of southern women compare to that of northern women?

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Prior to 1860, the role and status of so...

Question 2

Society in the antebellum South placed the plantation owner at the top of the social order.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

The banjo was an important instrument in slave music.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Southern,white,lower-class resentment of the aristocratic system was most likely to be found in

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A)   the cities.
B)   river and ocean port towns.
C)   the upper South.
D)   the mountain regions.
E)   the Deep South.F) A) and C)
G) B) and C)

Question 5

The South may have failed to develop a large industrial economy due to all the following factors EXCEPT

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A)   the humid climate.
B)   little access to liquid capital.
C)   the profitability of cotton.
D)   cultural values.
E)   a shortage of labor.F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

Question 6

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 7

For the most part,slaves rejected Christianity.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Most white southerners owned

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A)   no slaves.
B)   one slave.
C)   two slaves.
D)   three to five slaves.
E)   six to ten slaves.F) B) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 9

The nuclear family was the dominant kinship model among the slaves of the South.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

In the first half of the nineteenth century,why did cotton become the major economic crop of the American South?

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Question 11

Sexual relationships between white southern men and female slaves was

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

Question 12

Southern white women had less access to education than their northern counterparts.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

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 that 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) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 14

From the 1830s on,state laws governing slavery became gradually less rigid.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Slaves were expected by their owners to attend church.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

In the South,the most significant opposition to the slave system came from the poorest of southern whites.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

One actual slave revolt that resulted in numerous white deaths in the nineteenth-century South was led by

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A)   Nat Turner.
B)   Denmark Vesey.
C)   Gabriel Prosser.
D)   Frederick Douglass.
E)   Harriet Tubman.F) B) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 18

Slave spirituals were written down and passed on to generations of African Americans.

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A) True 
 B)False

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For the most part,slaves rejected Christianity.

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One actual slave revolt that resulted in numerous white deaths in the nineteenth-century South was led by

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Ways in which slaves expressed elements of their African heritage included

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Sexual relationships between white southern men and female slaves was

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Southern,white,lower-class resentment of the aristocratic system was most likely to be found in

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Southern white women had less access to education than their northern counterparts.

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Slaves were expected by their owners to attend church.

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Most white southerners owned

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In the South,the most significant opposition to the slave system came from the poorest of southern whites.

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

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Slave spirituals were written down and passed on to generations of African Americans.

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The nuclear family was the dominant kinship model among the slaves of the South.

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The banjo was an important instrument in slave music.

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From the 1830s on,state laws governing slavery became gradually less rigid.

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The South may have failed to develop a large industrial economy due to all the following factors EXCEPT

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Southern white women had less access to education than their northern counterparts.

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