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

Question 2

To the degree that the South developed a nonfarm commercial sector,it was largely to serve the needs of the ________.

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Question 3

Regarding religion,American slaves

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A)  were expected to worship in black churches separate from whites.
B)  had mostly converted to Islam by the early nineteenth century.
C)  were usually not allowed to attend a church at all.
D)  shunned Christianity in favor of the polytheistic traditions of Africa.
E)  often incorporated African features into their Christianity.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 4

The most important new product in the South during the mid-nineteenth century was ________ cotton.

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Question 5

For the most part,slaves rejected Christianity.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Compare and contrast the working and living conditions of black southern slaves to the lives of white northern factory workers during the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Question 7

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

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Question 8

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

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

Question 9

Within the slave family,women had special burdens but also a special authority.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

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 it saved.F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 12

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 13

Which of the following is true of American slave families in the antebellum South?

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A)  A child of a slave could not be sold after he or she had reached three years of age.
B)  Blacks typically had weaker family ties than did whites,due to the uncertainties of their lives.
C)  Up to one-third of families were broken apart by the sale of family members.
D)  Most slaves who ran away did so to avoid punishment.
E)  Newly arrived slaves to a plantation were often shunned by the black community.F) A) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 14

In 1839,53 Cuban slaves took control of the ship Amistad; after being captured by a United States Revenue Service ship,most of the slaves were

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A)  returned to Cuba under order of the United States Supreme Court.
B)  enslaved in the United States.
C)  returned to Africa with funding from American abolitionists.
D)  allowed to enter the United States as free men,pursuant to a ruling of the United States Supreme Court.
E)  killed upon capture.F) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 15

The "peculiar institution" was ________.

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Question 16

Former president John Quincy Adams argued before the Supreme Court that slaves from aboard the ship _______ should be freed.

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Question 17

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

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A) True 
 B)False

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