Group 5 Quiz

Prior to the cotton gin, how much could one person separate in one day?

• 10 Pounds

• 1 Pound

• 1,000,000 Pounds

• A few billion pounds

What was happening around that time that led to cotton being so lucrative?

• Textile mills were popping up in England and France

• Less cotton was being produced meaning it was worth more

• Cotton was turning into gigantic stacks of $100 bills

What was a yeoman farmer?

• A farmer who made only rice and corn

• A farmer who liked different forms of farming

• A farmer with a small farm less than usually 2 acres or less that seldom owned slaves

What was the difference between the task system and the gang system?

A.) A task system gave slaves certain tasks for the day. The gang systems worked the slaves from sun up to sun down usually with a brutal task master in charge

B.) The task system gave slaves free food, money, and freedom. The gang system worked as if all of the slaves teamed up to take their owner down.

• A.) True

• B.) False

What did slave codes forbid African American slaves from doing?

• Owning property

• Leaving slaveholders land without permission

• Possess firearms

• Testify against a white person

Despite Congress passing laws forbidding foreign imports of slaves, why did the slave population keep rising?

• It kept rising because more people were catching onto the idea

• It kept rising because they encouraged slaves to have children

• It kept rising because they said the slaves should have a nice big happy family

What is Stockholm Syndrome?

• A coping mechanism where a person faces their problems with something in an angry expression

• A coping mechanism to a captive or abusive situation where the person develops positive feelings for their captor or abuser

• A syndrome where someone is very depresses because their current stocks they invested into aren't doing good

What was the Missouri Compromise?

• The Missouri Compromise was when they compromised/seized up of the slaves

• It added Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. Slavery cannot go any further than the southern Missouri border

• When Missouri compromised all of imported goods

What practice was started in the election of 1828?

• Gun laws

• Mudslinging

• Slingingmud

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