1280877996 | Southern planters owned | more than half of the slaves. | 0 | |
1280877997 | White slaveholders used slaves to grow cotton because it was a profitable labor force. | True | 1 | |
1280877998 | The increase in cotton production was mostly generated by | British demand for textiles. look this up | 2 | |
1280877999 | Elijah 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 up | 3 | |
1280878000 | Yeoman 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 up | 4 | |
1280878001 | Between 1830 and 1860, the number of slaves in the South | doubled. | 5 | |
1280878002 | In the antebellum South, freed African Americans | were almost a third caste in cities like Charleston and New Orleans. | 6 | |
1280878003 | Marriage was a common, if not a legal, institution among plantation slaves. | True - look this up | 7 | |
1280878004 | The infant mortality rate for slaves was | twice as high as that for whites. | 8 | |
1280878005 | Most southern whites owned at least one slave. | False | 9 | |
1280878006 | Freed slaves from the United States formed the African nation of Liberia. | True - look this one up | 10 | |
1280878007 | Sarah and Angelina Grimké were daughters of a South Carolina slaveholder. | True - look at this entire section, KNOW THE FAMOUS REFORMERS | 11 | |
1280878008 | George Fitzhugh's unusual defense of slavery argued that | slavery was better for the slave than the northern system of labor was for industrial workers. - look this up | 12 | |
1280878009 | The "lazy diseases" especially affected slaves. | false - poor whites (this is actually pretty interesting, ya better look it up) | 13 | |
1280878010 | While Sojourner Truth was a strong opponent of slavery, she did not support equality for women. | false - again, know the reformers! | 14 | |
1280878011 | The so-called "gag rule" in the U.S. House of Representatives applied to | consideration of abolitionist petitions. - look this up | 15 | |
1280878012 | William 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 movements | 16 | |
1280878013 | The most common form of resistance to slavery by the slaves themselves was | malingering and sabotage. | 17 | |
1280878014 | A slave insurrection in which several whites were killed involved | Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831. (3 slave insurrections- first two were weeded out, Nat Turner was the only successful one) | 18 | |
1280878015 | Which of the following was a preferred job for a slave? | skilled worker look this up | 19 | |
1280878016 | In the South, state laws prohibited free blacks from owning black slaves. | false- look this up, its pretty interesting? | 20 | |
1280878017 | All 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 architecture | 21 | |
1280878018 | By 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 masters | 22 | |
1280878019 | The Old Southwest included Texas and Louisiana, as well as part of Tennessee and Kentucky. | True | 23 | |
1280878020 | Black slaves were unsuited for industrial work. | False a southern stigma that was most certainly wrong | 24 | |
1280878021 | Most slaves accepted the Christian religion in place of their native beliefs. | true afro-christianity, mixing of African religion and Christianity | 25 | |
1280878022 | The closing of the African slave trade in 1808 caused | a rise in the price of slaves. they became more valuable bc they were limited | 26 | |
1280878023 | The moral code of white southern males emphasized | personal honor. often resulted in violence | 27 | |
1280878024 | In 1860, the dollar value of slaves exceeded the value of all of America's banks, railroads, and factories combined. | True | 28 | |
1280878025 | Black abolitionists included | Frederick Douglass. Sojourner Truth. William Wells Brown. | 29 |
America: A Narrative History; Chapter 15 APUSH Flashcards
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