Old South Assessment

Most slaves accepted the Christian religion in place of their native beliefs.

• True
• False

In the antebellum South, freed African Americans were...

• most numerous in rural areas
• almost a third caste in cities like Charleston and New Orleans
• forbidden to own slaves
• most numerous in Texas

By 1860, Protestant churches in the South...

• condemned slavery as evil
• wanted baptized slaves to be set free
• declared that slavery was a divinely ordained social system
• none of the above

The Old Southwest included Texas and Louisiana, as well as part of Tennessee and Kentucky.

• True
• False

Yeoman farmers did not often own slaves, but most of them supported the institution of slavery.

• True
• False

The increase in cotton production was mostly generated by...

• an increasing slave population
• settlement of the Northwest
• British and French demand for textiles
• all of the above

Emigration to the Southwest occurred because of...

• resistance to slavery in the Upper South
• soil exhaustion
• encouragement from wives to better their economic and social conditions
• all of the above

The most common form of resistance to slavery by the slaves themselves was...

• group rebellion, similar to the Nat Turner insurrection
• escape by fleeing the slave owner
• sabotage
• individual acts of violence

Marriage was common, although not a legal, institution among plantation slaves.

• True
• False

The moral code of white southern males emphasized...

• Christianity's golden rule
• equality derived from the American Revolution
• personal honor
• community, peace, and cooperation