Question 1

In the biography Incidents in the Life of a Salve Girl, Jacobs, Harriet A., talks about the brutality of slavery; slave owners could not be trusted, and saw the slaves as property, they weren\'t just being used to work the lands, but also being abused physically and mentally. The Nature of slavery in this passage really opens your eyes. It wasn\'t just forced labor, people where using these slaves as a way to feel better about themselves. They seemed to enjoy having a class of people beneath them, and some of the slave owners like Dr. Flint were terrible people. Although Harriet wasn\'t very descriptive about her sex life it is apparent that she was being sexual harassed by her slave owner Dr. Flint, and not only was he sexually harassing her, he was mentally abusing her. He would tell her that he was her master, and try to make her feel as though she was nothing. He had become obsessed with breaking her will to fully submit to him. She also makes many accounts about how slave owners just could not be trusted. Harriet also talks about how her Grandmother lent her mistress 300 dollars of hard earned money that was being saved to free her children. Her mistress violated her trust never to return the money. Slavery affected Sothern society by making the people lose their humanity. For example, when Harriet had children with Mr. Sands she was scared he would sell his own children. This was not an inconceivable concept for this time period.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

After a brief period of apprenticeship, the end of slavery in Britain came on August 1, 1838.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

Which of the following was not true of the plain white folk of the Old South?

Accepted Answer

Like slaves, they had few civil or political rights.

Question 4

The most influential African-American of the nineteenth century and the nation\'s leading advocate of racial equality was:

Accepted Answer

Frederick Douglass.

Question 5

During the 1830s, \'40s, and \'50s, elaborate defenses of slavery grew more and more common in southern public life.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

The Underground Railroad ran on steel tracks (after its iron ones were replaced) that were generally hidden in forest growth.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

Labor on rice plantations in South Carolina and Georgia was generally done by:

Accepted Answer

task labor.

Question 8

During the 1830s, \'40s, and \'50s, southern whites increasingly viewed the region\'s free black population as a threat to the system of slavery.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

What happened to the 135 enslaved persons who in 1841 seized the ship, the Creole, and sailed to Nassau in search of freedom?

Accepted Answer

They were given refuge in the British Caribbean.

Question 10

In 1850, most slaveowning families owned five or fewer slaves.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

In American slave culture, jumping over a broomstick was associated with which of the following acts?

Accepted Answer

marriage

Question 12

Which was not the case for free blacks?

Accepted Answer

Most free blacks rose to the status of skilled, middle-class workers.

Question 13

Following the Nat Turner Rebellion, the Virginia legislature discussed the possibility of abolishing slavery within the state.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

Which was not a restriction on free blacks in the Old South?

Accepted Answer

They could own dogs and firearms.

Question 15

According to abolitionist and former slave, Frederick Douglass, \"not to give a slave enough to eat, is regarded as the most aggravated development of meanness, even among slaveholders.\"

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

Which is not part of the generally accepted account of the 1822 conspiracy led by Denmark Vesey?

Accepted Answer

Vesey and his followers killed or maimed 37 whites.

Question 17

Nat Turner:

Accepted Answer

led an 1831 slave uprising in Virginia, killing about sixty whites.

Question 18

A small number of African-Americans owned slaves in the Old South.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

Which of the following does not apply to the comparative experience of slaves and free blacks in the Old South?

Accepted Answer

Between 1800 and 1860 the material conditions of free blacks steadily improved, while those of slaves steadily deteriorated.

Question 20

Approximately how many enslaved individuals ran away to the North each year?

Accepted Answer

1,000

Question 21

\"In southern cities, thousands of slaves were employed as skilled artisans.\" Define \"artisan.\"

Accepted Answer

skilled craftsman

Question 22

Which of the following was not a feature of slave culture?

Accepted Answer

a notable indifference to gender roles

Question 23

Whose name is most often associated with the Underground Railroad?

Accepted Answer

Harriet Tubman

Question 24

John C. Calhoun of South Carolina considered \"the most false and dangerous of all political errors,\" the view that:

Accepted Answer

all men are created equal and entitled to liberty.

Question 25

For slaves, slavery meant constant fear that their families might be destroyed by sale, incessant toil, and brutal punishment.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

In the years before the Civil War, the wealthiest Americans were:

Accepted Answer

Planters in South Carolina and Mississippi.

Question 27

In the Old South, the percentage of white families that owned slaves was approximately:

Accepted Answer

25 percent.

Question 28

Cotton was \"king\" during the first half of the nineteenth century. Three-fourths of the world\'s supply came from the United States, and textile manufacturers in New England, Great Britain, France, and Russia depended on the American cotton supply. Define \"textile.\"

Accepted Answer

woven cloth

Question 29

\"Slave patrols\" were:

Accepted Answer

farmers who kept a lookout for runaway slaves.

Question 30

The southern state with the largest free black population in relation to its total African-American population was?

Accepted Answer

Delaware

Question 31

Slaves had many ways to \"quietly\" resist the power of the slave ownersâfrom feigning illness, to wrecking tools, to performing inadequate labor.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

Which was not a condition of slavery?

Accepted Answer

Slaves were not allowed to carry shotguns in South Carolina.

Question 33

Slaveowners had many ways to enforce discipline among their slavesâfrom physical punishment, to material incentives, to the threat of sale.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

Separated by large gaps in wealth and breeding, planters and poorer whites of the Old South seldom found anything in common.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 35

By 1860, economic investment in the United States in slaves exceeded the total economic investment in the nation\'s factories, railroads, and banks combined.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 36

Which of the following was not a central theme of planter ideology?

Accepted Answer

There is no place for fixed social hierarchies in a democratic republic.

Question 37

Which of the following was not a part of slavery\'s impact on the northern economy?

Accepted Answer

Slave labor in the southern Cotton Belt undermined cotton production in the North.

Question 38

By the mid-nineteenth century (1800s), all states had made it illegal to kill a slave except in self-defense.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 39

As acts of self-empowerment, enslaved individuals often:

Accepted Answer

broke tools.

Question 40

Often, many slaves supplemented the food provided by their owners with other food items including chickens and vegetables they raised themselves.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 41

Cotton was the major agricultural crop of the South and, indeed, the nation, but slaves also grew rice, sugarcane, tobacco, and hemp.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 42

Which was not a job slaves occupied?

Accepted Answer

businessman

Question 43

In 1860, three of four white families owned no slaves.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 44

In the midst of the American antebellum era, the British Parliament launched a program for abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire in 1831.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 45

By 1860, more than half of the United States\' exports were in:

Accepted Answer

cotton.

Question 46

In 1860, the South as a whole produced less than 10 percent of the nation\'s manufactured goods.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 47

The prevalence of plantation slavery kept the South from matching northern rates of immigration, industrial development, and urban growth.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 48

Slaves on cotton plantations found harsher work conditions but greater autonomy than did those on rice plantations.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 49

In 1860, the largest economic investment in the United States was in:

Accepted Answer

slaves.

Question 50

Which of the following was not a frequent mode of slave resistance?

Accepted Answer

deadly assaults on slaveholders

Question 51

During the early to mid-1800s, sugar produced in the slave South was America\'s leading export.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 52

Improvements in the slaves\' living conditions were meant to strengthen slavery, not undermine it.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 53

Slaves made up a significant portion of the Old South\'s:

Accepted Answer

all of the above.

Question 54

Slaves knew little of Christianity or the Bible, and slave masters usually withheld access to religion from their enslaved labor.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 55

The laws of almost all southern states recognized the legality of slave marriages.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 56

Brook Farm was a vibrant, successful, and active community for more than a century.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 57

Which was not a movement Abby Kelley was associated with?

Accepted Answer

tariff reform

Question 58

At the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton modeled the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments on:

Accepted Answer

the Declaration of Independence.

Question 59

As a group, Irish immigrants were one of the biggest supporters of the temperance movement.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 60

Many northern women were inspired and transformed by the abolitionist message, but few played an active role in spreading it.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 61

\"Shakers\" got their name because they were similar in their faith beliefs to Quakers but danced in a shaking manner as part of their religious services.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 62

Dorothea Dix, a Massachusetts school teacher, was the leading proponent of:

Accepted Answer

more humane treatment of the insane.

Question 63

Which of the following was not an area of public activism open to women during the 1830s and \'40s?

Accepted Answer

political party conventions

Question 64

As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all, Horace Mann promoted the idea that universal public education would encourage the good of society by bringing children of all economic classes together in a common learning experience.

Accepted Answer

True

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