Quiz 12

A  stealing food and other goods.

B  sabotage of plantation equipment.

C  running away.

D  armed insurrection.

E  feigned laziness.

A  commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves.

B  frequently supported abolitionism.

C  primarily controlled male slaves.

D  were almost universally loved by their slaves.

E  had little contact with slaves.

A  it created an aristocratic political elite.

B  its land continued to remain in the hands of the small farmers.

C  it relied on a one-crop economy.

D  it repelled a large-scale European immigration.

E  it stimulated racism among poor whites.

A  advocating black movement into the new territories.

B  politically sympathetic but socially segregationist.

C  supporting their right to full citizenship.

D  disliking the race but liking individual blacks.

E  disliking the individuals but liking the race.

A  the cost of education was far more than masters would want to spend on slaves.

B  masters feared their slaves might become smarter than White owners.

C  their labor did not require literacy or math skills.

D  it would take time away from their work in the fields and households of white masters.

E  masters believed that reading brought new ideas that might lead to their discontent.

A  as a punishment for running away.

B  in the Deep South.

C  on small plantations and in the upper South.

D  in the decade before the Civil War.

E  on the large plantations.

A  Henry Clay

B  Nat Tumer

C  John Quincy Adams

D  Andrew Jackson

A  quick profits from cotton drew planters to its economic enterprise.

B  75 percent of the British supply of cotton came from the South.

C  cotton accounted for half the value of all American exports after 1840.

D  the South produced more than half the entire world’s supply of cotton.

E  the South reaped all the profits from the cotton trade.

A  new Southwest states of Texas, Arkansas, and Indian Territory.

B  border states of Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland

C  mountain regions of Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky.

D  old South states of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

E  Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

A  they claimed that slaves were set free once they reached old age.

B  slaveholders said slavery lifted Africans from the barbarism of the jungle and gave them Christian civilization.

C  Slaveholders claimed that master-slave relationships resembled a family.

D  they said that slaves toiled under better working conditions than factory workers and hired hands in the North.

E  they claimed slavery was supported by the Bible.