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The relationship of southern antebellum white society to slavery included all of the following EXCEPT
1. The large planter slaveholders were the dominant class.
2. In 1860, only 1/4 of all white southerners belonged to slave owning families.
3. Planters were just a small part of the total white population in the south
4. 3/4 of all white southerners owned no slaves.
5. All slaveowners were white.
In the slaves' daily lives
1. Most (90%) slaves worked on plantations & farms.
2. On large plantations in the cotton belt most slaves worked under the "gang system."
3. Black drivers were used to manage & discipline the slaves.
4. Rice plantations used the "task system" of slave labor.
5. All plantation owners were white.
In addition to field hands, slaves also worked as
1. skilled carpenters
2. "drivers" to supervise & discipline other slaves
3. preachers
4. children's caretakers
5. All of the above are correct.
In African American family life in the antebellum south
1. Slaves had a strong & abiding sense of family.
2. On large plantations most children lived in two parent households.
3. Marital fidelity was encouraged by slaveowners.
4. On small plantations & farms, female-headed households were the norm.
5. All of the above are correct.
All of the following were slave revolts or conspiracies EXCEPT
1. Gabriel Prosser in Richmond in 1800
2. Barek Obama in Williamsburg in 1807
3. Charles DesLondes in Louisiana in 1811
4. Denmark Vesey in Charleston in 1822
5. Nat Turner in Southampton County Virginia in 1831
Resistance to slavery included all of the following EXCEPT
1. revolts
2. conspiracies
3. run aways
4. widespread murder of masters
5. passive resistance & sabotage
Free Blacks in the Old South
1. were subject to a set of direct controls
2. were victims of prejudice & discrimination
3. were skilled artisans & small business owners
4. many had been former slaves
5. All of the above are correct.
The great southern planters were all of the following EXCEPT
1. were few in number & set the tone & values of society
2. were self-made men
3. were exclusively male
4. held high political office often
5. were a ruling class in every sense of the term
In the cotton kingdom, many large planters
1. were self-made, hard driven businessmen
2. built up capital from commerce, land speculation, banking & law
3. bought plantations & spent much of their time supervising day to day business activities
4. were sometimes men of leisure
5. All of the above are correct.
Small slaveholders, who owned less than 20 slaves
1. were a majority of all slaveholders
2. were sometimes urban merchants & professionals who used slaves for domestic service
3. were small farmers who had 1-2 slaves & worked alongside the slaves in the fields
4. slave-master relationships were closer among small slaveholders
5. All of the following are correct.
Yeoman farmers in the Old South
1. were a majority of the nonslaveholding rural white population & owned their own land
2. were usually Democrats in politics
3. were concentrated in the back country in hilly sections away from transportation
4. usually grew subsistence crops
5. All of the above are correct.
The southern internal slave trade operated because
1. The price of tobacco in VA & MD fell & they had a surplus of slaves.
2. As slave prices rose, VA & KY, & MD sold surplus slaves to the lower south.
3. Slave labor declined in importance in the upper south as time passed.
4. In the upper south, farmers used crop rotation, fertilizer, & diversified farming so slaves were less important.
5. All of the above are correct.
The cash crop in southern Louisiana was
1. Sugar
2. Rice
3. Cotton
4. Tobacco
5. Hemp
The cash crop of coastal SC & GA was
1. Sugar
2. Tobacco
3. Rice
4. Cotton
5. Hemp
Short staple cotton
1. could be grown throughout the south except in VA & KY
2. needed the cotton gin to be economically feasible & helped spur westward expansion for new cotton lands
3. was the best chance for profitable investment
4. proposered when planters had the advantages of cotton gins & fertile bottom land
5. All of the above are correct.

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