Chapter 16 Group: Quiz

As a result of the cotton gin:

• fewer slaves were needed on the plantation

• short-staple cotton lost popularity

• slavery was reinvigorated

• Thomas Jefferson predicted the gradual death of slavery

• The African slave trade was legalized

Most southern slaveowners held...

• fewer than 10 slaves

• no slaves

• 20+ slaves

• 100+ slaves

Which of the following was not a result of the southern economy?

• spoiled land

• over speculation

• monopolies

• union of the south and north

The only group of white southerners who hated both slaveowners and blacks were...

• mulattoes

• Appalachian mountain whites

• lowly farmers

• immigrants

Which of the following was NOT an example of how free blacks were discriminated?

• They were barred from education

• They were restricted the right to vote in some states

• They could not testify against whites in southern courts

• By law, they were not allowed to own property

What was the largest contributing factor to the increasing slave population?

• Cotton Production

• Illegal slave importation

• Natural Reproduction

• Freed blacks being enslaved

What other culture/belief was the African slave culture greatly influenced by?

• Christianity

• Calvinism

• Transcendentalism

• Puritan Ideals

Which of the following statements is TRUE about slave rebellions/nature?

• Slaves were peaceful and never showed any rebellious nature

• Slaves took part in rebellions, but none were majorly successful

• Shay's Rebellion was one of the most popular slave rebellions in the mid 1800s

• Slaves were content with their life and saw no reason to oppose their masters

Why were freed blacks refusing to be sent to Liberia?

• Because Africa was dangerous and full of disease at the time

• They did not want to be sent to a strange land and leave America and their African American heritage and culture

• They were unable to provide enough money to pay for the long journey across the Atlantic

• They were afraid of being sold back into slavery in Liberia

Who is responsible for the creation of the Anti-Slavery Society?

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Wendell Phillips

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglass