Impact History: Chapter 12,Lesson 4

What did yeomen in the South typically own?

• Large plantations

• No land and no slaves

• Small farms and sometimes slaves

• Only land but no crops

What was the primary activity of tenant farmers in the South?

How were the rural poor in the South typically described?

• Wealthy with many slaves

• Renting land and owning slaves

• Living in small cabins and farming

• Owning small farms and trading crops

What characterized plantation owners in the South?

• They rented land from others

• They were poor and lived in cabins

• They owned large amounts of land and had many enslaved people

• They owned small farms and had few or no slaves

Did the majority or the minority of white people in the South hold enslaved people?

• Majority

• Minority

• All white people

• No white people

Why did large, close-knit extended families become an important part of African American culture?

• To gain wealth and social status

• To survive and endure family separations under slavery

• Because of the influence of European culture

• To manage and work on large plantations

What were the purposes of the black codes?

• To ensure equal rights for all citizens

• To control enslaved people and to prevent slave rebellions

• To promote trade with other countries

• To establish educational institutions for all

What were the effects of Nat Turner's rebellion?

• The rebellion was widely supported by the population

• Nat Turner became a political leader

• More severe slave codes were passed

• Slavery was abolished in the region

What was the "Underground Railroad"?

• A subway system used for public transportation

• A network of safe houses owned by people who opposed slavery and helped enslaved people escape to the north

• A historical railroad that connected the East and West coasts

• An underground movement that promoted industrialization

By the mid-1800s, was the South mostly agricultural or mostly industrial?

• Mostly agricultural

• Mostly industrial

• Equally agricultural and industrial

• Neither agricultural nor industrial