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A) It was grown primarily in the Upper South. B) It was grown only by the largest slaveowners. C) Cultivation spread steadily westward to new agricultural frontiers. D) In the South, acreage planted in cotton exceeded that devoted to any other single crop. 2
A) 75 percent B) 50 percent C) 25 percent D) less than 2 percent 3
A) self-made men who had succeeded through work and luck. B) the sons of well-to-do Easterners who moved west. C) supported by foreign investors who received most of the cotton revenues. D) members of rich families who used their inheritances to buy plantations. 4
A) enjoyed lives of leisure with all domestic responsibilities met by slaves. B) bore heavy responsibilities and worked hard to meet them. C) generally lived on the plantations only during the busy social season. D) enjoyed the same legal and social status as their husbands. 5
A) were landless and poverty stricken. B) hated the planter class. C) opposed slavery because it hurt them economically. D) suffered from isolation, a limited market, and shortage of money. 6
A) there were so few small farmers. B) of a shared racism and fear of African-Americans. C) even the poorest farmers owned slaves. D) planters thought of all white Southerners as social equals. 7
A) the slave population increased despite high infant mortality rates. B) large numbers of slaves had to be imported to keep the population stable C) the slave population grew at twice the rate of white population growth. D) good medical care created a low infant mortality rate among slaves. 8
A) usually consisted of the nuclear unit (father, mother, and their children), but often was part of larger kinship networks. B) was essentially impossible to sustain under bondage. C) rarely existed in a functional way on large plantations. D) by law, had to be sold as a unit. 9
A) was effectively controlled by whites. B) was expressed in secret meetings beyond white supervision. C) was based primarily on blacks' hatred of whites and thus did not enhance slaves' sense of self-worth. D) Incorrect. Religion played a major role in the lives of slaves. See pp. 356-357. 10
A) developed an internal hierarchy favoring darker skin color. B) lived mostly in urban centers. C) were mostly males. D) lived mostly in the upper South. 11
A) the Bible sanctioned slavery. B) southern slaves lived better lives than northern factory workers. C) slaves belonged to an inferior race. D) slavery, while wrong, was indispensable for the South's economy. 12
A) became a leading advocate of slavery as a "positive good." B) strongly defended humane treatment of slaves as the slaveowners' paternalistic obligation. C) led a slave revolt despite relatively humane treatment by his master. D) was an escaped slave who led other runaways to freedom.
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