Question 1

Which of the following statements regarding urban slavery is FALSE?

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A)   Some urban slaves were skilled trade workers.
B)   Urban slaves were prohibited from having contact with free blacks.
C)   Urban slaves were less supervised than rural slaves.
D)   Urban slaves in the South had little working competition from European immigrants.
E)   The line between slavery and freedom in cities was less distinct.F) D) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 2

Prior to 1860, southern white women

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A)   had about the same access to education as northern white women.
B)   were not expected to engage in manual labor, whatever their social standing.
C)   generally lived lives that were isolated from the wider world.
D)   had a birth rate that was lower than the national average.
E)   were more likely to see their children grow to adulthood than northern white women.F) B) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 3

A runaway slave making a successful escape from the American South was

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A)   highly likely.
B)   likely.
C)   unlikely.
D)   highly unlikely.
E)   impossible.F) A) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 4

Ways in which slaves expressed elements of their African heritage included

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A)   singing songs and playing musical instruments, such as the banjo.
B)   keeping family diaries and other written personal records.
C)   wearing clothing that incorporated traditional African designs or colors.
D)   speaking in their native African languages when out of the presence of whites.
E)   celebrating traditional African feasts and rites of passage, in defiance of white law.F) None of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 5

According to some scholars, the actual material conditions of American slavery may have been better than those of some northern factory workers and better than those of both peasants and industrial workers in much of nineteenth-century Europe.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Of the following, the most common form of resistance to slavery was

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A)   group rebellions.
B)   arson.
C)   running away.
D)   subtle defiance.
E)   poisoning.F) B) and D)
G) None of the above

Question 7

What is the difference between slave resistance and slave rebellion? Why was one more prevalent than the other?

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Question 8

What were the differences between being a slave in the city and a slave in the country?

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Question 9

The historian who wrote "The South [prior to the Civil War] grew, but did not develop" meant that

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A)   the southern population increased, but new technology had bypassed the region.
B)   agriculture remained the leading industry of the South, but the plantation system was declining.
C)   the South had failed to move from an agrarian to an industrial economy.
D)   the South had expanded as a geographic region but had developed little prosperity.
E)   the South had created a prosperous plantation system but had not expanded its borders.F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 10

Which of the following statements about the southern aristocratic ideal is FALSE?

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A)   Wealthy southern whites adopted an elaborate code of "chivalry."
B)   Dueling became a prominent facet of southern planter life.
C)   Wealthy southern whites prided themselves on their egalitarianism.
D)   Wealthy southern whites pretended to avoid such "coarse" occupations as trade and commerce.
E)   Wealthy southern whites often gravitated toward the military.F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

Question 11

In the South, small farmers, often as much as great planters, were committed to the plantation system.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Compare and contrast the nature of the black slave family and culture with the free white family and culture during the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Question 13

________ led the only actual large-scale slave revolt in the United States in the nineteenth century.

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Question 14

Most white southerners owned

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A)   no slaves.
B)   one slave.
C)   two slaves.
D)   three to five slaves.
E)   six to ten slaves.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 15

To "manumit" means to

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A)   purchase.
B)   punish.
C)   work by hand.
D)   deny.
E)   set free.F) All of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 16

Prior to 1860, free blacks in the South

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A)   were concentrated in the Deep South.
B)   were required by law to leave the South.
C)   increased in number in the 1850s, as laws encouraged owners to free "surplus" slaves.
D)   occasionally attained wealth and prominence and owned slaves themselves.
E)   avoided urban centers such as New Orleans or Natchez, where they might attract attention.F) None of the above
G) A) and E)

Question 17

Southern women generally had final authority on issues related to the home and children.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The South had an inadequate transportation system and only a rudimentary financial system as late as the middle of the nineteenth century.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

The slave system may have created separate spheres for blacks and whites, but each race was nonetheless dependent on the other.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

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 B)
G) A) and C)

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