Chapter 13 Section 4A: North and South 1820 - 1860

Which of the following was a category of white Southerners?

• Yeomen

• Industrialists

• Merchants

• Bankers

Fill in the blank: Very few _______ owners existed in the South.

• Plantation

• Factory

• Store

• Ship

Fill in the blank: Most Southerners were either small farmers without slaves or planters with a _______ of slaves.

• Handful

• Dozen

• Hundred

• Thousand

Which group made up the largest group in the south?

• Yeomen

• Tenant Farmers

• Slaves

• Merchants

What did rural poor typically plant?

• Wheat

• Corn

• Rice

• Barley

What activities did rural poor engage in for food?

• Fishing and hunting

• Trading and selling

• Farming and exporting

• Mining and gathering

Yeomen did not have ______.

• land

• slaves

• crops

• houses

What type of cabins did rural poor live in?

• Modern

• Crude

• Spacious

• Luxurious

The Metoyer family of Louisiana owned thousands of acres of land and more than how many slaves?

• 100

• 200

• 300

• 400

The fixed cost for plantation owners remained about the same every ____.

• Month

• Year

• Season

• Week