Chapter 13 Test

Why did industry remain a minor part of the southern economy after 1840s?

• The south did not have the resources to set up factories

• Both England and the North could produce goods more cheaply

• Planters received tax cuts to cultivate crops

• Planters preferred to preform manual labor

Many of the first factories in the South were built for the

• cutting, sorting and cleaning lumber

• processing crops such as sugarcane

• bundling bales of wool

• construction of iron materials

What advantage did skilled slaves have over unskilled slaves?

• worked shorter hours

• moving from plantation to plantation

• living in the owner's house

• earning money to buy their freedom

What were spirituals?

• emotional Christian songs sung by slaves

• rebellions led by slaves

• places where slaves went to worship

• stories with lessons about slavery

How did enslaved parents pass their culture down to their children?

• They told folktales with traditional characters and morals

• They told the children biblical tales so the exodus from slavery

• They showed their children how to outsmart slaveholders

• They taught children songs about freedom

How did most planters encourage slave obedience?

• through education

• by withholding payment for work completed

• through physical punishment

• by offering rewards for better food

Slaves most often ran away from slaveholders in order to do what?

• visit relatives

• study in secret

• get medical attention

• attend church

What was the effect of Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831?

• Slaves lost the right to a fair trial

• Terrified slaveholders freed their slaves

• Slave codes were toughened

• Slaves obtained better working conditions

Why did the value of slaves drop in the South following the American Revolution?

• Slaves launched rebellions

• Slaves began to escape North

• Crop prices fell and demand decreased

• The practice of slavery became unpopular in the South

What was responsible for increasing the domestic slave trade in early 1800s

• Stronger types of cotton began to emerge as as result of crossbreeding

• some leaders wanted the South to grow a variety of cash crops

• Farmers used plows to turn over soil

• An Act of Congress banned the importation of slaves into U.S.