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1280877996Southern planters ownedmore than half of the slaves.0
1280877997White slaveholders used slaves to grow cotton because it was a profitable labor force.True1
1280877998The increase in cotton production was mostly generated byBritish demand for textiles. look this up2
1280877999Elijah P. Lovejoy was murdered by a mob of pro-abolition zealots.False - murdered by a mob of pro-slavery, was a "martyr for the cause" look this up3
1280878000Yeoman farmers did not often own slaves, but most of them supported the institution of slavery.True - "hey I'm low class but at least I'm still above the slaves" look this up4
1280878001Between 1830 and 1860, the number of slaves in the Southdoubled.5
1280878002In the antebellum South, freed African Americanswere almost a third caste in cities like Charleston and New Orleans.6
1280878003Marriage was a common, if not a legal, institution among plantation slaves.True - look this up7
1280878004The infant mortality rate for slaves wastwice as high as that for whites.8
1280878005Most southern whites owned at least one slave.False9
1280878006Freed slaves from the United States formed the African nation of Liberia.True - look this one up10
1280878007Sarah and Angelina Grimké were daughters of a South Carolina slaveholder.True - look at this entire section, KNOW THE FAMOUS REFORMERS11
1280878008George Fitzhugh's unusual defense of slavery argued thatslavery was better for the slave than the northern system of labor was for industrial workers. - look this up12
1280878009The "lazy diseases" especially affected slaves.false - poor whites (this is actually pretty interesting, ya better look it up)13
1280878010While Sojourner Truth was a strong opponent of slavery, she did not support equality for women.false - again, know the reformers!14
1280878011The so-called "gag rule" in the U.S. House of Representatives applied toconsideration of abolitionist petitions. - look this up15
1280878012William Lloyd Garrison changed the anti-slavery movement in 1831 by advocating the immediate abolition of slavery, which he regarded as a sin.True - publisher of the Liberator, leader of the radical abolitionists, supporter of all the reform movements16
1280878013The most common form of resistance to slavery by the slaves themselves wasmalingering and sabotage.17
1280878014A slave insurrection in which several whites were killed involvedNat Turner in Virginia in 1831. (3 slave insurrections- first two were weeded out, Nat Turner was the only successful one)18
1280878015Which of the following was a preferred job for a slave?skilled worker look this up19
1280878016In the South, state laws prohibited free blacks from owning black slaves.false- look this up, its pretty interesting?20
1280878017All of the following factors made the South distinctive, except:the presence of many European immigrants - this is also pretty interesting, south was distinctive bc of slavery, warmer weather suitable for growing cotton, and its architecture21
1280878018By 1860, Protestant churches in the South defended slavery on all of the following grounds, except:the "gag rule" endorsed it DID on - the Hebrew patriarchs held slaves, Jesus is silent on the subject, and Saint Paul directed servants to obey their masters22
1280878019The Old Southwest included Texas and Louisiana, as well as part of Tennessee and Kentucky.True23
1280878020Black slaves were unsuited for industrial work.False a southern stigma that was most certainly wrong24
1280878021Most slaves accepted the Christian religion in place of their native beliefs.true afro-christianity, mixing of African religion and Christianity25
1280878022The closing of the African slave trade in 1808 causeda rise in the price of slaves. they became more valuable bc they were limited26
1280878023The moral code of white southern males emphasizedpersonal honor. often resulted in violence27
1280878024In 1860, the dollar value of slaves exceeded the value of all of America's banks, railroads, and factories combined.True28
1280878025Black abolitionists includedFrederick Douglass. Sojourner Truth. William Wells Brown.29

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