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Chapter 11   1)According to your textbook, all of the following were characteristics of the Old South except 2

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Chapter 11

 

1)According to your textbook, all of the following were characteristics of the Old South except

2. The South was different from the rest of the nation for all of the following factors except

 

3. As the number of _______ dropped in the South in the 19th century, the number of ________ rose.

 

4. Your textbook refers to the culture of the Old South in the 19th century as

5. The Old South’s unique societal reliance on the use of slavery in the 19th century has often been called

6. Which of the following statements regarding the Old South is most accurate?

7. Those living in the Old South did not believe in

8. In the Old South’s mythic view of itself slavery was

9. Which state was not part of the sub region of the Old South called the Lower South?

10. Southern paternalism is

11. In the first half of the 19th century, __________ became the most profitable cash crop in the South.

12. The first cash crop produced in the South was

13. The two most expensive cash crops produced in the Old South were

14. The “cotton kingdom’s” success was largely based on

15. Because the _________ was overplanted, farmers moved to the _________.

16. By 1860, American cotton production topped

17. The Old Southwest was made up of all of the following except

18. According to your textbook, by 1860 more than __________ of the slaves in the South worked in cotton production.

19. As cotton prices rose in the 19th century

20. Where was the majority of the cotton produced in the South going by 1860?

21. Massive southern plantations were ________ and their owners wielded _________ in economic, political, and social life.

22. The difference between a plantation and a farm was

23. Your textbook defines a southern planter as an individual who owned at least ______ slaves.

24. By studying surviving census records, historians estimate that planters made up approximately ________ of southern pre-war society.

25. Your textbook asserts _____ in _____ southerners had a direct interest in the peculiar institution.

26. Which of the following statements regarding southern women is most accurate?

27. The Old South was a(n) ___________ society.

28. On plantations in the Old South overseers were _______ and drivers were _______.

29. According to your textbook, __________ were the largest segment of white society in the Old South.

30. Which of the following statements regarding “poor whites” in the Old South is most accurate.

31. In the years from 1830 to 1860, the number of slaves in the United States

32. ___________ were state laws that governed the treatment of slaves in the years before the Civil War.

33. In the laws of slave states, slaves were

34. The Lower South, the Upper South, and the Border South all shared

35. In the South, free persons of color

36. __________ is the term used to refer to a person of mixed white and black ancestry in the 19th century in the Old South.

37. The foreign slave trade was outlawed in the United States in _______ under President________.

38. Which of the following statements regarding the domestic slave trade is most accurate?

39. The vast majority of slaves in the South

40. In general, slaves living in southern cities

41. Which of the following statements regarding men’s and women’s experience of slavery is most accurate?

42. Which statement about marriage among slaves is most accurate?

43. In ___________, such as “Go Down, Moses,” slaves expressed their longing to be free.

44. Which of the following statements regarding slave families is not accurate?

45. Which of the following statements regarding African American religion is not accurate?

46. Most slave owners tried to __________ African religion and spirituality.

47. _____________ led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831.

48. All of the following individuals planned slave rebellions except

49. A runaway slave actually making it to freedom was

50. Slaves who did not want to rebel could resist by doing all of the following except

51. How did the vast majority of slaves react to life under slavery?