America: A Narrative History; Chapter 15 APUSH Flashcards

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