Question 1

In the American slave family,

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A)  most couples did not formally marry.
B)  the women typically began bearing children later than white women.
C)  premarital pregnancy was uncommon.
D)  extended kinship networks were strong and important.
E)  premarital cohabitation was frowned upon.F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 2

Tobacco cultivation in the antebellum South

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A)  was easy on the soil.
B)  was gradually moving westward.
C)  enjoyed a stable market.
D)  was centered in the lower South.
E)  never made a profit.F) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

Question 3

Which of the following statements about the poorest class of white southerners is FALSE?

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A)  They often felt affinity with slaves as members of another oppressed class.
B)  They were known variously as "crackers" or "sand hillers."
C)  They supported themselves by foraging or hunting.
D)  They suffered from pellagra,hookworm,and malaria.
E)  They were forced to resort at times to eating clay.F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 4

Prior to 1860,how did the role and status of southern women compare to that of northern women?

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Question 5

A runaway slave making a successful escape from the American South was

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A)  highly likely.
B)  likely.
C)  unlikely.
D)  highly unlikely.
E)  impossible.F) C) and D)
G) All of the above

Question 6

The "peculiar institution" was a southern reference to

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A)  the plantation.
B)  manufacturing.
C)  capitalism.
D)  slavery.
E)  democracy.F) A) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 7

It was common for slaves to hold an entirely hostile attitude toward their owners.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Southern white lower-class resentment of the aristocratic system was most likely to be found in

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A)  the cities.
B)  river and ocean port towns.
C)  the upper South.
D)  the mountain regions.
E)  the Deep South.F) B) and C)
G) C) and D)

Question 9

Southern women generally had final authority on issues related to the home and children.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

The historian who wrote "The South grew,but did not develop" prior to the Civil War meant

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A)  the southern population increased but new technology had bypassed the region.
B)  agriculture remained the leading industry of the South,but the plantation system was declining.
C)  the South had failed to move from an agrarian to an industrial economy.
D)  the South had expanded as a geographic region but had developed little prosperity.
E)  the South had created a prosperous plantation system but had not expanded its borders.F) D) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 11

Ways in which slaves expressed elements of their African heritage included

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A)  singing songs and playing musical instruments such as the banjo.
B)  keeping family diaries and other written personal records.
C)  wearing clothing that incorporated traditional African designs or colors.
D)  speaking in their native African languages when out of the presence of whites.
E)  celebrating traditional African feasts and rites of passage,in defiance of white law.F) A) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 12

The central ideology of slavery,and the vital instrument of white control,was

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A)  fraternity.
B)  maternalism.
C)  paternalism.
D)  sorority.
E)  egalitarianism.F) B) and C)
G) D) and E)

Question 13

In the South,small farmers,often as much as great planters,were committed to the plantation system.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

The slave codes of the American South

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A)  defined anyone with a trace of African ancestry as black.
B)  legalized slave marriages.
C)  were rigidly enforced.
D)  considered it a crime for an owner to kill a slave.
E)  banned blacks from attending church.F) None of the above
G) B) and D)

Question 15

In the mid-nineteenth century,slavery in the Western world existed only in the United States,Brazil,Cuba,and ________.

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Question 16

The slave system may have created separate spheres for blacks and whites,but each race was nonetheless dependent on the other.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Prior to 1860,southern white women

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A)  had about the same access to education as northern white women.
B)  were not expected to engage in manual labor,whatever their social standing.
C)  generally lived lives that were isolated from the wider world.
D)  had a birth rate that was lower than the national average.
E)  were more likely to see their children grow to adulthood than northern white women.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 18

A typical white southerner

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A)  grew cotton and other crops for market.
B)  was a subsistence farmer.
C)  was passionately antislavery.
D)  depended on subsistence farming despite attaining a high level of education.
E)  worked on a large plantation alongside slaves.F) C) and D)
G) C) and E)

Question 19

Short-staple cotton

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A)  helped to keep the South a predominantly agricultural region.
B)  was less coarse than long-staple cotton.
C)  was easier to process than long-staple cotton.
D)  was more susceptible to disease than long-staple cotton.
E)  was only grown in the coastal regions of the upper South.F) B) and C)
G) A) and C)

Question 20

In southern cities,slave tasks might include mining,lumbering,blacksmith,or carpentry.

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A) True 
 B)False

Exam 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

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It was common for slaves to hold an entirely hostile attitude toward their owners.

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Short-staple cotton

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The central ideology of slavery,and the vital instrument of white control,was

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In the South,small farmers,often as much as great planters,were committed to the plantation system.

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A typical white southerner

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Tobacco cultivation in the antebellum South

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Southern women generally had final authority on issues related to the home and children.

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Ways in which slaves expressed elements of their African heritage included

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