The Society and Economy of the South Test

LEVEL 1- Match the terms about the South with the definitions below.

• a farmer who owns a small farm

• Productivity

• farmer that owns no land or slaves

• overseer

• measure of how much a worker can make

• Yeoman

• the ability to read and write

• tenant farmer

• plantation manager

• literacy

LEVEL 1- The largest groups of whites in the South were made of...

• plantation owners

• rural poor

• tenant farmers

• yeoman farmers

LEVEL 1: What were the main cash crops of the Upper and Deep South? CHECK ALL THAT APPLY.

• cotton, rice, wheat, indigo

• peanuts, sugarcane, barley, corn

• sugarcane, cotton, rice, tobacco

• indigo, cranberries, wheat, cotton

LEVEL 1- Which South Carolina merchant opened a textile factory?

• Eyre Crowe

• Eli Whitney

• Joseph Reid Anderson

• William Gregg

LEVEL 1: African American folk songs that expressed the passionate beliefs of the South's enslaved workers were called...

• overseers.

• slave codes.

• spirituals.

• yeoman opera

LEVEL 2: What did farmers in the South use in order to tranport their goods?

• canals

• horse-drawn carts

• natural waterways

• railroads

LEVEL 2: Which area became a center for the sale and transport of enslaved people throughout the South?

• The Deep South

• The Northeast

• The Upper South

• The West

Level 2: The network of safe houses that assisted runaway slaves was know as...

• the runaway homes

• the secret passage

• the slave codes

• the underground railroad

LEVEL 2: Two reasons that cities in the south grew more slowly were that...

• most people in the South produced agricultural goods and railines often were short and did not connect to cities.

• most factories were built outside of cities and relied on water power using rivers.

• most southerners were used to working in factories and used the railroads fot their transportation.

LEVEL 3: Reasons that women became some of the first to call for abolishing slavery was...

• that they had the same rights as men and were in an excellent postion to help end slavery.

• that their rights and priveledges in society were limited so they found it easy to identify with people in slavery.

• that slavery was very different from the abundant rights that were given to women in the North.

• that men granted women the rights to protest over the issue of slavery.