Quiz 12

A  sabotage of plantation equipment.

B  armed insurrection.

C  feigned laziness.

D  stealing food and other goods.

E  running away.

A  were almost universally loved by their slaves.

B  frequently supported abolitionism.

C  commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves.

D  primarily controlled male slaves.

E  had little contact with slaves.

A  it repelled a large-scale European immigration.

B  it relied on a one-crop economy.

C  it stimulated racism among poor whites.

D  it created an aristocratic political elite.

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  advocating black movement into the new territories.

D  supporting their right to full citizenship.

E  politically sympathetic but socially segregationist.

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

D  their labor did not require literacy or math skills.

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

A  in the Deep South.

B  in the decade before the Civil War.

C  as a punishment for running away.

D  on the large plantations.

E  on small plantations and in the upper South.

A  John Quincy Adams

B  Andrew Jackson

C  Nat Tumer

D  Henry Clay

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

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

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

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

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

A  border states of Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland

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

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

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

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

A  they claimed slavery was supported by the Bible.

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

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