Question 1

Map: Size of Slaveholdings, 1860
 
-The trend shown in the map was most encouraged by

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A)   isolationism.
B)   abolitionism.
C)   manifest destiny.
D)   imperialism.E) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 2

Urban slaves:

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A)   most often were domestic servants.
B)   was a term coined by southerners to describe northern factory workers.
C)   had less autonomy than plantation slaves because there were more authorities to watch them.
D)   could work on their own and always kept the majority of their earnings.E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 3

Which state had the fewest free blacks?

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A)   Mississippi.
B)   Louisiana.
C)   South Carolina.
D)   Virginia.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 4

What economic effect did southern slavery have on the North?

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A)   It was minimal, which explains why northerners opposed slavery.
B)   Many northerners profited from investing in real-estate partnerships that controlled southern plantations.
C)   A few New York shipping companies benefited from slavery, but the institution had little effect otherwise.
D)   Southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvements in the North.E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 5

Slave religion:

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A)   was based entirely on what slaves learned and heard from white ministers.
B)   existed without approval from masters, who thought that letting slaves learn about religion might weaken their control.
C)   benefited from masters assigning a member of each slave quarters to serve as a slave chaplain.
D)   combined African traditions and Christian beliefs.E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 6

What resulted from the sexual exploitation of slave women?

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A)   Church ministers criticized the activity as a sin.
B)   Most slave men were unaware of the exploitation of their wives and relatives.
C)   Some wives of plantation owners resented when this happened and then punished slaves.
D)   Many of the babies that resulted from the exploitation were sent to Africa.E) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 7

In the South, the paternalist ethos:

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

Question 8

The Brer Rabbit stories of slave folklore:

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A)   celebrated how the weak could outsmart the more powerful.
B)   borrowed heavily from English folktales but did add some African elements.
C)   formed the basis of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
D)   introduced the character Paul Bunyan to American culture.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 9

What was the Underground Railroad?

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A)   It used a system of railways to transport slaves.
B)   It was a series of interlocking local networks involving abolitionists.
C)   It used a single, centralized system with tunnels for slaves.
D)   It employed encrypted codes and clearly defined routes and stations.E) None of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 10

Northerners who were not abolitionists did what in regards to slavery?

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A)   Many hoped to become slave owners.
B)   A majority wanted the North to secede the union.
C)   They faced a dilemma of conscience and law.
D)   Most became members of the Underground Railroad.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 11

Compare and contrast both passive and violent forms of slave resistance in the South from 1800-1848.

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Question 12

From 1840 to 1860, the price of a "prime field hand":

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A)   rose about 80 percent, which made it harder for southern whites to enter the slaveholding class.
B)   rose less than 10 percent, which kept the size of the planter class about the same.
C)   declined about 15 percent as the supply of slaves in the internal slave trade increased.
D)   became so inexpensive that the slaveholding class grew to include nearly two-thirds of southern whites.E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 13

Celia was:

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A)   the pen name of Floride Calhoun, who secretly criticized her husband, John's, views on slavery.
B)   a slave tried for killing her master while resisting a sexual assault.
C)   the name used to signify a southern plantation mistress in writings about the institution.
D)   a slave who became famous for helping other slaves escape via the Underground Railroad.E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 14

The end of slavery in most Latin American nations:

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A)   resulted from violent slave revolts that rocked Latin America from 1822 to 1855.
B)   involved gradual emancipation accompanied by recognition of owners' legal rights to slave property.
C)   was inspired by the emancipation of slaves that occurred as a result of the American Civil War.
D)   followed a pattern very different from that established in the northern United States.E) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 15

Historians estimate that approximately ________ slaves per year escaped to the North or Canada.

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A)   500
B)   1,000
C)   2,000
D)   5,000E) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

Question 16

The relationship between rich southern planters and poor southern farmers:

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A)   led to numerous violent uprisings in the southern hill country.
B)   was complicated by the strong antislavery movement among poor farmers in the 1850s.
C)   was strained by planters' insistence that farmers participate in the slave patrols.
D)   benefited in part from a sense of unity bred by criticism from outsiders.E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

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