SS 7: Southern Economy Quiz

The southern economy was based on _____.

• industry

• tourism

• plantation slavery

• small farm production

By the mid-1830s, _____ was the primary crop of the South.

• corn

• cotton

• tobacco

• wheat

By 1840, the South produced ____ of the world's cotton.

• 25%

• 100%

• 50%

• 75%

Which was not a way in which the South "legalized" slavery to keep their way of life intact?

• Strict fugitive slave laws allowed slave owners to go north to recapture slaves.

• State laws made it illegal to teach slaves how to read or write.

• Children inherited the status of the mother to ensure children were kept slaves.

• Children inherited the status of the father to ensure children were kept slaves.

What was one way that slaves did not resist slavery?

• Faking illness

• Working slow

• Picking more cotton than they were expected to in the fields

• "Accidentally" breaking tools

________ led the most famous slave revolt in 1831 where he killed 50 whites in Southampton, VA.

• John Brown

• Frederick Douglass

• Nat Turner

• James Revolt

Bonus:The factory boom of the 1830s and 1840s and the arrival of more immigrants ______.

• pushed wages down

• increased worker wages

• kept worker pay the same