1029091853 | With the introduction of the cotton gin | slavery was reinvigorated | 0 | |
1029091854 | Members of the planter aristocracy | dominated society and politics in the south | 1 | |
1029091855 | True of the American economy under Cotton Kingdom | a. South produced more than half of the entire world's supply of cotton b. 75% of Britain's supply of cotton came from the South c. Quick profits from the cotton drew planters to its economic loamy bottomlands of the gulf states d. Cotton accounted for half the value of all American exports after 1840 | 2 | |
1029091856 | Plantation agriculture was largely wasteful because | its excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled good land | 3 | |
1029091857 | Plantation mistresses | commanded a sizeable household staff of mostly female slaves | 4 | |
1029091858 | Plantation agriculture was | economically unstable and wasteful | 5 | |
1029091859 | The plantation system of the Cotton South was | increasingly monopolistic | 6 | |
1029091860 | The following were weaknesses of the slave plantation system | a. It relied on a one-crop economy b. it repelled a large-scale European immigration All EXCEPT that its land continued to remain in the hands of the small farmers | 7 | |
1029091861 | German and Irish immigration to the South was | discouraged by competition with slave labor | 8 | |
1029091862 | All told, only about 1/4 of white southerners | owned slaves or belonged to a slaveholding family | 9 | |
1029091863 | Said the quote, "I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom." | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 10 | |
1029091864 | As their main crop, southern subsistence farmers raised | corn | 11 | |
1029091865 | Most white "red-necked" southerners were | non-slave-owning subsistence farmers | 12 | |
1029091866 | By the mid-nineteenth century, | most slaves lived on large plantations | 13 | |
1029091867 | Most slaves in the South were owned by | plantation owners | 14 | |
1029091868 | The majority of southern whites owned no slaves because | they could not afford the purchase price | 15 | |
1029091869 | The most pro-Union of the white southerners were | mountain whites | 16 | |
1029091870 | Some southern slaves gained freedom as a result of | purchasing their way out slavery | 17 | |
1029091871 | The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due to | natural reproduction | 18 | |
1029091872 | Northern attitudes toward free blacks can best be described as | disliking the individual blacks but liking the race | 19 | |
1029091873 | Discrimination was common for free blacks living in the | North | 20 | |
1029091874 | The profitable southern slave system hobbled the economic development of | the region as a whole | 21 | |
1029091875 | Regarding work assignments, slaves were | generally spared dangerous work | 22 | |
1029091876 | Perhaps the slave's greatest psychological horror and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was | the enforced separation of slave families | 23 | |
1029091877 | By 1860, slaves the "black belt" were located in the Deep South states of | Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama | 24 | |
1029091878 | As a substitute for the wage-incentive system, slave owners most often used the whip as a | motivator | 25 | |
1029091879 | By 1860, life for slaves was most difficult in the | newer states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana | 26 | |
1029091880 | Forced separation of spouses, parents, and children was the most common on | small plantations and in the upper South | 27 | |
1029091881 | The following were true of slavery in the South | d. By 1860, most slaves were concentrated in the "black belt" of the Deep South All EXCEPT most slaves were raised in a single unstable parent household | 28 | |
1029091882 | Most slave were raised in | stable two-parent household | 29 | |
1029091883 | Slaves fought the system of slavery in the following ways | All EXCEPT by refusing to get an education | 30 | |
1029091884 | As a result of white southerners' brutal treatment of their slaves and their fear of potential slave rebellions, | the South developed a theory of biological racial superiority | 31 | |
1029091885 | In the pre-Civil War South, the most uncommon and least successful form of slave resistance was | armed insurrection | 32 | |
1029091886 | The idea of recolonizing blacks back to Africa was supported by the black leader | Martin Delany | 33 | |
1029091887 | Pledged his dedication to the immediate abolition of slavery in the South | Frederick Douglass | 34 | |
1029091888 | Many abolitionists turned to political action in 1840 when they backed the presidential candidate of the | Liberty Party | 35 | |
1029091889 | The voice of white southern abolitionism silenced at the | beginning of the 1830s | 36 | |
1029091890 | In arguing for the continuation of slavery after 1830, southerners placed themselves in | opposition to much of he rest of the Western world | 37 | |
1029091891 | Those in the North who opposed the abolitionists believed that these opponents of slavery were | creating disorder in America | 38 | |
1029091892 | Ulrich B. Phillips made certain claims about slavery that have been challenged in recent years | a. Slaves were racially inferior b. Planters treated their slaves with kindly paternalism c. Slavery was a dying economic institution d. Slaves were submissive by nature and did not abhor slavery All EXCEPT Slavery was comparable to the Nazi concentration camps | 39 |
APUSH Chapter 16: The South & the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860 Flashcards
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