Antebellum Mississippi / Civil War & Reconstruction Quiz

A labor system that established, by law and customs, African American slaves were the personal property of their owners.

• chattel slavery
• sharecropping
• forced labor
• indentured servitude

Funds from the lease of every 16th out of 36 sections of land; used to support public schools

• 16
• 18
• 1
• 36

A white man who acted as manager of the slaves and the farming operations.

• slave owner
• overseer
• foreman
• supervisor

State laws regulating slavery

• Black Codes
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Segregation laws
• Jim Crow laws

_____ 7. A private teacher

Northerners who moved to the South and supported the rights of blacks

• abolitionists
• segregationists
• carpetbaggers
• Confederates

Which of the following cotton economies were mostly democrats?

• large planters

• large and small planters

• farmers

• small planters

Which of the following cotton economies were the largest group of slave owners in Mississippi?

• large and small planters
• farmers
• large planters
• small planters

Which of the following cotton economies farmed at least 500 acres of land?

• small planters
• farmers
• large and small planters
• large planters

In what decade did the slave population soar in Mississippi?

• 1820s
• 1850s
• 1830s
• 1840s