Life in the South

The Southern economy depended most heavily on:

• Manufacturing
• Farming
• Cattle Herding
• Ship building

The most important cash crop in the South (by 1860) was:

• Cotton
• Tobacco
• Rice
• Indigo

Half of all slave owners had about how many slaves?

• More than ten
• Fewer than five
• Between 20-30

When people didn't want to do "slave work," they rented out their land to white farmers known as:

• Tenant Farmers
• Yoemen
• Slave Drivers
• Plantation Farmers

A person who owned farmland, but didn't own slaves was called:

• a Tenant Farmer
• a Yoeman
• a Plantation owner
• a sharecropper

According to followers of State's Rights, who or what should determine the fate of slavery in the South?

• The US government
• The people of the US (through a vote)
• The governments of the states that practiced slavery.

What were some Southern leaders threatening to do if the North and South couldn't agree on things such as slavery and state's rights?

• To go to war
• To stop trading with the North
• To leave the US and become independent
• To stop growing cotton

Farming only in amounts large enough to feed a few families is called:

• Subsistence Farming
• Cash crops
• Tenant farming
• Plantation farming

What is the significance of the Mason-Dixon Line?

• It separates the East and West in the US
• It determines where slavery could be practiced.
• It symbolically divides the North and South in the US

It was illegal to teach slaves to...

• Ride horses
• Run a household
• Operate machinery
• Read and write