Question 1

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) C) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 2

By the mid-nineteenth century, slavery in the western world existed only in the American South.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the center of economic power in the South shifted from the upper South to the lower South.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Explain why the southern economy remained largely agricultural during the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Question 5

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

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

Question 6

The slave codes of the American South

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

Question 7

The New Orleans magazine publisher, James B. D. De Bow, championed

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A)   southern economic independence from the North.
B)   southern commercial and agricultural growth.
C)   closer economic ties with the North.
D)   southern economic independence from the North, and southern commercial and agricultural growth.
E)   closer economic ties with the North, and southern commercial and agricultural growth.F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 8

In 1850, outside of the United States, slavery in the Western Hemisphere also existed in

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A)   Colombia.
B)   Brazil.
C)   the Virgin Islands.
D)   Haiti.
E)   no other country.F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

Question 9

Approximately one-third of southern whites owned slaves.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the "cotton kingdom"

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A)   was already losing ground to other staples, such as rice and tobacco.
B)   saw wealthy planters outnumber small planters.
C)   did not rely on large numbers of slaves imported directly from Africa.
D)   was the dominant source of the income of the lower South.
E)   still had not adopted the cotton gin, despite the time and resources that could be saved.F) B) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 11

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

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

Question 12

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 E)
G) D) and E)

Question 13

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) D) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 14

Slave codes effectively prevented slaves from owning property.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

It was common for slaves to hold an entirely hostile attitude toward their owners.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The name given to the effort by whites and blacks to help runaway slaves escape was the

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A)   Frederick Douglass road.
B)   underground railroad.
C)   Fugitive Slave Act.
D)   Cumberland passage.
E)   Second Middle Passage.F) A) and D)
G) D) and E)

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