The South Test Review

All of these were every day acts of resistance by enslaved people EXCEPT:

• Working slowly
• Breaking equipment
• Running away
• Armed revolts

Most white people owned slaves in the South

• True
• False

Slaves sang these folk songs mixing African and European music and often were religious in nature

• hymns
• spirituals
• rhymes
• melodies

Folktales are part of an oral tradition, and are stories with a

• moral
• happy ending
• sad ending
• surprise ending

The most famous slave uprising was

• Fred Smith's Rebellion
• Amos Moses' Rebellion
• Nat Turner's Rebellion
• Charles Thompson's Rebellion

This table shows the population of enslaved people in two regions of the United Stated in 1840. Which statement describes a factor that MOST contributed to the population difference shown in the table?

• The South had a society that relied on wage labor
• The South had an economy that relied on cotton
• The South had a variety of natural resources
• The South had an abundance of large cities

What said that any slave who escaped to the North can be caught and returned to their enslaver?

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Missouri Compromise
• Return Runaway Slave Act
• Three Fifth Compromise

How were most southern whites connected to the plantation system?

• Most had little direct connection because they owend small farms
• Most southern whites worked for planters
• Most southern whites owned large plantations
• Most were connected to plantations because they rented land from them

Since most slaves couldn't read or write, they passed down stories, poems, and songs by word of mouth. This is known as an

• oral tradition
• local tradition
• written tradition

The area of the South with high cotton production became known as

• white gold
• Texas tea
• the cotton belt
• cotton breadbasket