APUSH : Ch 12-13

How did the Chesapeake region contribute to the domestic slave trade?

• By encouraging European immigrants to migrate to the Cotton South

• By providing Native American slaves to the Cotton South

• By selling surplus African American slaves to the Cotton South

• By buying slaves from the Cotton South

How did the domestic slave trade affect slave marriages?

• By law, married slaves could only be sold together.

• Married slaves were not sold in the domestic slave trade.

• It destroyed about one in every four slave marriages.

• Slaves did not get married, in fear that they would be separated from their spouse.

Which statement characterizes the gang-labor system of slave labor in the Lower South?

• Assigning random jobs to slaves and allowing them to work at their own pace

• Large work crews supervised by a black driver and a white overseer

• Close supervision by the planter class of field work

• The avoidance of whipping of black slaves as an incentive to work harder

What distinguished the entrepreneurial planters of the Cotton South in the 1840s and 1850s from the upper-class planters of the Old South?

• Greater opulence and elegance

• Heightened religious hypocrisy

• Attitude of aristocratic paternalism

• A plain and simple life

What was the dominant pattern of marriage relationships among the smallholding yeomen of the antebellum South?

• Egalitarian based on shared ownership of property

• Matriarchal, as land tended to be in wives' names

• Patriarchal, with husbands dominant

• Shaped by the ideology of companionate marriage

Why did the Texas war party succeed with its call for a rebellion in 1835?

• The new Mexican president nullified the Texans' exemption from the ban on slavery.

• General Santa Anna had captured and imprisoned rebel leader Sam Houston.

• Mexico had declared war on the United States.

• The Mexican revolution made life in that nation unbearable.

Why did the planter elite of the South face political challenges in the 1840s and 1850s?

• New state constitutions opened the franchise, making it more difficult for them to dominate government.

• Other whites increasingly viewed slave owning as morally reprehensible.

• A new entrepreneurial class emerged to challenge the old elites for power.

• Their reluctance to invest in internal improvements discredited them.

In the early 1800s, what did the growing cities of the South all have in common?

• They tended to be around the periphery of the South.

• They tended to be state capitals

• They tended to be in the region's coolest areas.

• They tended to have large free black populations.

Which statement characterizes the religious practices of African American slaves in the Deep South in the early nineteenth century?

• They had adopted Catholicism from Portuguese slave traders.

• The majority of them were Muslims.

• The majority of them worshiped African gods and spirits.

• They had largely converted to the Anglican Church.

Why did many African American slaves choose not to run away?

• They were not able to imagine a life of freedom.

• They did not want to leave family and kin.

• They feared that the North would be just as bad as the South.

• They felt affection for their masters.