1.Which of the following is true about slave ownership in the Old South?
2 Why did cotton farmers use so many slaves?
3. Which new states led the production of cotton, in what was called the "Black Belt"?
4. Which crop replaced tobacco as the main cash crop of Virginia and Maryland?
5. Kentucky raised a significant quantity of hemp, a plant related to marijuana. What was hemp used for?
6. What crop did most agricultural slaves tend?
7. Where was tobacco cultivation important?
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8. Where was rice cultivation important?
9. Which crop employed the largest number of slaves on a single plantation?
10. Which very profitable crop pushed owners to work their slaves very hard, under very difficult time and weather conditions?
11. Which slave-dependent crop was by far the most important to the country as a whole?
12. Which statement is true about slave childhood?
13. What reason did white southerners not use to justify the sexual exploitation of black women?
14. A slave's diet in the period between 1820 and 1860
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15. Slave clothing was generally
16. How did slaves' general health compare with the slave populations in the rest of the New World?
17. Which slave group had the highest status on the plantation?
18. What was a primary advantage of being a skilled slave?
19. How was life different for slaves in the city than on the plantation?
20. Why did slaves prefer even dirty, menial industrial labor to plantation work?
21. Which of the following statements is true about punishment for slaves?
22. As cotton expanded as a cash crop, the slave trade
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23. What percentage of slaves from the Upper South moved toward the southwest as the cotton trade opened up?
24. What city served as a major slave market for slaves moving through the Southwest?
25. Which of the following is not true about slave marriages?
26. What was the importance of the animal trickster folktales?
27. What elements of Christianity did white masters choose to present to their slaves?
28. What elements did slaves not incorporate into their Christian religious practices?
29. Which of the following historians felt that slavery was a generally beneficial institution where slaveholders cared for happy slaves?
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30. What was a result of Vesey's conspiracy?
31. How did African Americans participate in the antislavery movement in the early nineteenth century?
32. What Protestant denomination is credited with beginning the antislavery movement in the North?
33. What were the limitations of the early antislavery movement?
34. Why did some blacks begin to oppose colonization?
35. What was an effect of Gabriel's conspiracy in 1800?
36. What role did white southerners think that free blacks played in slave revolts?
37. Which of the following is true about the Denmark Vesey conspiracy in 1822?
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38. What attitude characterized American politics during the Jacksonian Era?
39. Which of the following statements best represents the Democratic Party's ideas about slavery?
40. Which of the following is a true statement about the Second Great Awakening?
41. What important message did Charles Finney preach during the Second Great Awakening?
42. What were the goals of the American Colonization Society?
43. Why did some blacks endorse returning to Africa?
44. Which of the following is not a correct statement about the effort to colonize free African Americans?
45. What beliefs did William Lloyd Garrison hold about slavery?
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46. What famous antislavery newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison begin publishing in 1831?
47. How did William Lloyd Garrison change the nature of the antislavery movement?
48. What did David Walker's Appeal...to the Colored Citizens of the World advocate?
49. How did Walker's pamphlet influence the antislavery movement?
50. What was not a result of Nat Turner's rebellion?
51. What political development in 1850 caused the conductors of the Underground Railroad (UR) to move escaped slaves north to Canada?
52. In areas in the North where the UR routes and stations were found, what was the population of the free African Americans like?
53. Especially large numbers of slaves escaped via the UR from the lower Mississippi Valley, from coastal South Carolina, and from eastern Virginia. What were the slave populations in these areas like?
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54. was a policy that defined political and economic progress in racial terms, holding that God intended the United States to expand its territory.
55. In 1836, Texas won independence and applied for annexation to the United States as a free state, largely as a result of abolitionists moving into the region.
56. In 1836, Congress passed the , forbidding petitions related to slavery from being introduced in the House of Representatives.
57. The most significant abolitionist organization of the 1830s was American Anti--Slavery Society (AASS).
58. Black played the most important role in the development of the African--American antislavery movement.
59. Frederick Douglass's North Star and its successor Frederick Douglass' Paper were the most influential black antislavery newspapers of the late 1840s and the 1850s.
60. In 1840, most AASS members left to establish the American and Foreign Anti--Slavery Society (AFASS) and the , the first antislavery political party.
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Part III. Short essay:
In 2-3 double-space typed pages, address the following essay question. Your essay must draw from the documents in Many Rivers to Cross. Failure to do so will result in a "0" for this section. You are free to type the essay and attach it to the quiz.
1. Discuss major developments in the institution of slavery in the 19th century and the impact of these changes for the US as a whole and the experiences of African Americans particularly. Drawing from selected documents, your essay must take into account the response of blacks and whites, slave and free, and men and women to these changes.