Quiz 12

A  stealing food and other goods.

B  armed insurrection.

C  sabotage of plantation equipment.

D  running away.

E  feigned laziness.

A  primarily controlled male slaves.

B  commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves.

C  frequently supported abolitionism.

D  were almost universally loved by their slaves.

E  had little contact with slaves.

A  it created an aristocratic political elite.

B  it relied on a one-crop economy.

C  it stimulated racism among poor whites.

D  it repelled a large-scale European immigration.

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

A  disliking the individuals but liking the race.

B  disliking the race but liking individual blacks.

C  supporting their right to full citizenship.

D  advocating black movement into the new territories.

E  politically sympathetic but socially segregationist.

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

B  their labor did not require literacy or math skills.

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

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

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

A  on the large plantations.

B  in the Deep South.

C  on small plantations and in the upper South.

D  in the decade before the Civil War.

E  as a punishment for running away.

A  Nat Tumer

B  Andrew Jackson

C  John Quincy Adams

D  Henry Clay

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

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

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

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

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

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

B  border states of Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland

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

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

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

A  they claimed slavery was supported by the Bible.

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

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

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

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