Which of the following is a crop that was NOT associated with the Old South?
Wheat
Which of the following was NOT one of the reasons that cotton became king in the South?
It required the use of slaves.
Which of the following statements accurately describes the Upper South and the Lower South?
After about 1830, both were united in their defense of slavery.
Who led the 1831 rebellion in Southhampton County, Virginia, that terrified the South for generations?
Nat Turner
Why did factories develop slowly in the South?
Slave discipline was difficult to maintain in a factory system; The economic rewards of agriculture were more certain; Industrialization might have disrupted the traditional southern social structure; ALL OF THESE
Why did southern education lag behind northern education?
Southerners were indifferent to public schools.
By 1860, what percentage of white southern families owned slaves?
25
What was the largest group of southern whites in the antebellum period?
Nonslaveholding yeomen
What characterized life for most plantation mistresses?
Isolation, drudgery, and humiliation
What did the typical southern yeoman want?
Self-sufficiency with a modest profit
How did the Lower South acquire the slaves it used after 1808?
It acquired most of its slaves from the Upper South
Why nonslaveholding southerners support the slave system?
Some hoped to become slaveholders; They accepted the racist assumptions of slavery; They feared what freed slaves might do; ALL OF THESE
What shaped relations among white in the Old South?
A complex code of honor
How did the American slave population changed by about 1830?
It had increased dramatically
What percentage of slave owners owned more than 20 slaves in 1860?
Only about 10%
Why did the growth rate of the free-black population in South slow after 1810?
Fewer southern whites were freeing their slaves
Which of the following was common form of slave resistance?
Work stoppages
Which of the following is an accurate statement about slave uprising in the antebellum South?
There were only three, and only one resulted in white deaths
What lesson did white southerners learn from the Nat Turner rebellion?
Slave insurrection was an ever-present threat
Who was one of the South's chief defenders of slavery
George Fitzhugh
Pidgin was
a language of American-born slaves
Which of the following did southern evangelical churches generally NOT oppose?
Owning slaves
What was unusual about William Tiler Johnson?
He was a free black who owned slaves
Which of the following was generally an interracial institution in the Old South?
Church
Music and dance were important to slaves because they allowed them
To demonstrate religous beliefs; to lessen the tedium of work; to express the sorrows of slavery; to call for deliverance from earthly travails; ALL OF THESE
What was the status of the black slave family?
It had no legal status
The Underground Railroad
was an effort to help slaves to escape, but it had only limited success