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Slaves working in the fields generally viewed the overseer as a cruel and heartless man.

A) True
B) False

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Slave traders tried hard to keep slave families together.

A) True
B) False

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Slave rebellions were rare but important. Compare the slave rebellions (merely planned or actually carried out) of Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner. What did Vesey attempt to do? What did Turner attempt to do? How were these men similar? How did they view slavery and freedom? How did white society react to them, and why?

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What event is credited with helping to ingrain the paternalist ethos more deeply into the lives of southern slaveholders?


A) Nat Turner's Rebellion
B) the nullification crisis
C) the development of domestic ideology
D) the closing of the African slave trade
E) the secession crisis

F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

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MATCHING -Harriet Tubman


A) southern politician who spoke against the slavocracy
B) led a "successful" slave rebellion in Virginia
C) favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Cuba
D) favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Africa
E) escaped slave who led abolitionist movement
F) slave executed for conspiracy
G) defended slavery as a natural part of hierarchical society
H) outspoken proslavery politician
I) part of an organization helping slaves escape to the North
J) slave executed for killing her master
K) southern editor
L) Twelve Years a Slave

M) D) and L)
N) C) and L)

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By 1860, the economic investment represented by the slave population exceeded the value of the nation's factories, railroads, and banks combined.

A) True
B) False

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Slavery did not affect northern merchants and manufacturers.

A) True
B) False

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MATCHING -Denmark Vesey


A) southern politician who spoke against the slavocracy
B) led a "successful" slave rebellion in Virginia
C) favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Cuba
D) favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Africa
E) escaped slave who led abolitionist movement
F) slave executed for conspiracy
G) defended slavery as a natural part of hierarchical society
H) outspoken proslavery politician
I) part of an organization helping slaves escape to the North
J) slave executed for killing her master
K) southern editor
L) Twelve Years a Slave

M) G) and L)
N) F) and L)

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Bennet Barrow's advice to slaveowners on slave discipline (based on rules for slaves at his Highland Plantation in Louisiana) included all of the following EXCEPT:


A) Allow slaves to grow some of their own food to cut down on costs.
B) Prohibit any slave to marry someone from another plantation.
C) Make a slave as comfortable as possible at home.
D) Consider all of a slave's time to belong to the master.
E) Never allow a man, meaning a white man, to talk to one of your slaves.

F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

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What was the name of the vibrant community of former slaves freed by Virginian Richard Randolph?


A) Sea Island
B) Mount Vernon
C) Israel Hill
D) Sherman's Land
E) Promised Land

F) B) and D)
G) B) and E)

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Denmark Vesey's conspiracy:


A) reflected a combination of American and African influences.
B) took place in 1831 and was a success.
C) reflected the belief of the conspirators that the Bible endorsed slavery.
D) was discovered, but Vesey escaped North to freedom.
E) resulted in over twenty deaths of white men, women, and children.

F) A) and C)
G) D) and E)

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MATCHING -J. B. DeBow D.


A) southern politician who spoke against the slavocracy
B) led a "successful" slave rebellion in Virginia
C) favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Cuba
D) favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Africa
E) escaped slave who led abolitionist movement
F) slave executed for conspiracy
G) defended slavery as a natural part of hierarchical society
H) outspoken proslavery politician
I) part of an organization helping slaves escape to the North
J) slave executed for killing her master
K) southern editor
L) Twelve Years a Slave

M) B) and E)
N) E) and J)

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MATCHING -Underground Railroad


A) system to help slaves escape to the North
B) slave trade within the United States
C) poor work and breakage of tools
D) slavery
E) managed slaves in the field
F) community of freed Virginian slaves
G) treating slaves in a fatherly manner
H) working in the fields side-by-side
I) had one or two, if any, slaves
J) boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland
K) cotton
L) trickster tale

M) A) and F)
N) B) and L)

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Southern farmers in the backcountry:


A) generally worked the land using family labor.
B) were all directly involved in the market economy from the start of the nineteenth century.
C) owned a substantial number of slaves.
D) were highly self-sufficient but still bought most of their supplies from stores.
E) were fortunate that their land was far better for farming than that owned by planters.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -free blacks

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Which of the following is a true statement relative to the Upper South and the Deep South?


A) Committed to slavery, all states in both the Upper South and Deep South seceded from the Union.
B) The Upper South was less economically diversified than the Deep South.
C) Several Upper South states did not join the Confederacy at the time of the Civil War.
D) Neither the Upper South nor the Deep South had major industrial centers.
E) Richmond, Virginia, is considered to be the heart of the Deep South.

F) C) and E)
G) B) and E)

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In the South, the paternalist ethos:


A) reflected the hierarchical society in which the planter took responsibility for the lives of those around him.
B) declined after the War of 1812, as southern society became more centered on market relations rather than on personal relations.
C) suffered because southern slaveholders lived among their slaves, so that the groups' constant exposure to each other made southern slavery more openly violent than elsewhere.
D) brought southern society closer to northern ideals.
E) encouraged southern women to become more active and better educated so that they could help their husbands in their paternal roles.

F) A) and E)
G) B) and C)

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Celia

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Andrew Johnson of Tennessee and Joseph Brown of Georgia rose to political power:


A) because of their membership in and identification with the planter class.
B) in the 1850s, as members of the small but influential southern Republican Party.
C) as self-proclaimed spokesmen of the common man against the great planters.
D) as proponents of gradual emancipation plans in order to destroy the "slavocracy."
E) after gaining popularity for creating public education systems in their states.

F) B) and C)
G) C) and D)

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Overall, slaves did not think much about freedom. They were content with their situation as long as their master was kind.

A) True
B) False

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