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Chapter 10 The South and Slavery Practice Questions Flashcards

Out of Many Practive Questions- Chapter 10: The South and Slavery

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1122797880The cotton boom in the south helped finance the...industrialization of the north.1
1122797881Expansion into southwestern cotton production resulted in...high concentrations of slaves in those areas.2
1122797882The U.S ended its participation in the international slave trade in...1808.3
1122797883Most successful slave escapes were from...the Upper South.4
1122797884One reason that the number of slaveholders declined as a percentage of the population between 1830 and 1860 was that...slaves became very expensive.5
1122797885During the colonial period the major export crops grown by slaves were....tobacco, rice, indigo6
1122797886In the years following the American Revolution...large-scale cotton production and the slave system on which it depended made the South quite different than the North.7
1122797887A crucial element in the rapid growth of cotton production between 1790 and 1840 was...technological innovation that occurred in Great Britain.8
1122797888As a result of large-scale cotton production in the South...capital in the region was concentrated in land and slaves.9
1122797889In the cotton-producing South...a viable but often vulnerable African-American slave community developed.10
1122797890The organization of slave labor on large plantations came to be known as...the gang system.11
1122797891Within the slaves' world...a diversity of occupations and circumstances developed.12
1122797892One result of the slaves' existence was...the development of strong familial and non-kinship relationships.13
1122797893Black Christianity was a religion that...provided a sense of spiritual freedom that profoundly shaped slave culture.14
1122797894In the South during the years prior to 1850...free African Americans experienced tremendous social and racial discrimination.15
1122797895From 1790 until the 1840s...the largest group of slave owners were small independent farmers hoping to improve their economic circumstances.16
1122797896The ideology that Southerners developed to rationalize their treatment of slaves was...paternalism.17
1122797897As the United States approached the 1850s...because of its commitment to slavery the South's role in national politics began to change.18

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