Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860
 
1.  After 1800, the prosperity of both North and South became heavily 
dependent on growing, manufacturing and the exporting of cotton.  
A.  True					B.  False
 
2. The southern planter aristocracy was strongly attracted to 
medieval cultural ideals.
A.  True					B.  False
 
3. The growing of cotton on large plantations was economically 
efficient and agriculturally sound.
A.  True					B.  False
 
4. Most southern slaveowners owned twenty or more slaves.
A.  True					B.  False
 
5. In 1860, three-fourths of all white southerners owned no slaves at 
all.
A.  True					B.  False
 
6. Poor whites supported slavery because it made them feel racially 
superior and because they hoped someday to be able to buy slaves.
A.  True					B.  False
 
7. The one group of southern whites who opposed slavery consisted of 
those who lived in mountain areas far from plantations and from 
blacks. 
A.  True					B.  False
 
8. Free blacks enjoyed considerable status and wealth in both the 
North and the South before the Civil War.
A.  True					B.  False
 
9. Slaveowners generally treated their black slaves as a valuable 
economic investment.
A.  True					B.  False
 
10. Slavery almost completely destroyed the black family.
A.  True					B.  False
 
11. American slaves used many small methods of resistance to 
demonstrate their hatred of slavery and their yearning for freedom. 
A.  True					B.  False
 
12. Abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison quickly attained great 
popularity in the North. 
A.  True					B.  False
 
13. While moralistic white abolitionists like Garrison refused to 
become involved in politics, practical black abolitionists like 
Douglass looked for a way to abolish slavery through political 
action. 
A.  True					B.  False
 
14. After about 1830, the South no longer tolerated even moderate pro-
abolitionist discussion. 
A.  True					B.  False
 
15. Southern whites increasingly argued that their slaves were 
happier and better off than northern wage earners. 
A.  True					B.  False
 
16. The primary market for southern cotton production was 
A.  the North.
B.  France.
C.  Latin America.
D.  D. Britain.
 
17. The invention that transformed the southern cotton economy was 
A.  the sewing machine.
B.  the mechanical cotton-picker.
C.  the cotton gin.
D.  the steamboat.
 
18. A large portion of the profits from cotton growing went to 
A.  northern traders and European manufacturers.
B.  southern and northern slave traders.
C.  southern textile industrialists.
D.  midwestern farmers and cattlemen.
 
19. Among the economic consequences of the South's cotton economy was 
A.  increasing immigration of laborers from Europe.
B.  a dependence on the North for trade and manufacturing.
C.  a stable system of credit and finance.
D.  a relatively equal distribution of property and wealth.
 
20. Most southern slaveowners held 
A.  over a hundred slaves.
B.  over fifty slaves.
C.  fewer than ten slaves.
D.  only one slave.
 
21.  Even though they owned no slaves, most southern whites supported 
the slave system because 
A. they were bribed by the planter class. 
B. they enjoyed the economic benefits of slavery.
C. they felt racially superior to blacks and hoped to be able to buy 
slaves
D. they disliked the northern abolitionists.
 
22. The only group of white southerners who strongly opposed slavery 
and the slaveowners were 
A.  poor southern whites.
B. urban merchants and manufacturers.
C. religious leaders.
D. Appalachian mountain whites.
 
23. The condition of the 500,000 or so free blacks was
A.  considerably better in the North than in the South. 
B.  notably improving in the decades before the Civil War. 
C.  as bad or worse in the North than in the South. 
D.  politically threatened but economically secure.


24. Most of the growth in the African-American slave population 
before 1860 came from 
A. the illegal importation of slaves from Africa.
B. the re-enslavement of formerly free blacks.
C. natural reproduction.
D. the incorporation into the United States of new slave territories.

25.  Most slaveowners treated their slaves as 
A.	objects to be beaten and brutalized as often as possible. 
B.	economically profitable investments. 
C.	members of their extended family. 
D.	potential converts to evangelical Christianity. 

26.  The African-American family under slavery was
A.  generally stable and mutually supportive. 
B.  almost nonexistent.
C.  largely female-dominated.
D.  seldom able to raise children to adulthood.

27.  Most of the early abolitionists were motivated by
A.	a desire to create an independent black republic in Africa. 
B.	anger at the negative economic consequences of slavery. 
C.	religious feeling against the "sin" of slavery. 
D.	a philosophical commitment to racial integration. 

28.  The most prominent black abolitionist leader was
A.	Sojourner Truth. 
B.	David Walker. 
C.	William Lloyd Garrison. 
D.	Frederick Douglass. 
 
29.  After 1830, most southerners came to look on slavery a
A.  a curse on their region. 
B.  a necessary evil. 
C. a positive good. 
D. a threat to their social ideals. 

30.  By the 1850s, most northerners could be described as
A.  opposed to slavery but also hostile to immediate abolitionists. 
B.  fervently in favor of immediate abolition. 
C.  sympathetic to white southern arguments in defense of slavery. 
D.  eager to let the slaveholding South break apart the Union