History Quiz 9

Why were there not more slave revolts in the Old South?

The most common daily form of resistance to slavery in the antebellum South was

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled

Identify the author of the following primary source quote: "The negro slaves of the South are the happiest, and in some sense, the freest people in the world. The free laborer [in the North] is more of a slave than the negro."

All of the following were leaders of planned slaved revolts EXCEPT:

Which of the following did Southern white women despise the most about plantation society?

Why did nonslaveholding white southerners support the slave system?

Who of the following enjoyed the highest status in the slave communities of the American antebellum South?

Music and song enabled slaves to

What was the status of the black slave family?

By 1830, the slave population in the US had

Class relations among whites in the Old South were a complex blend of

How did planters like to present themselves to the critics of slavery in antebellum America?

By 1860, what percentage of white southern families owned slaves:

Identify the author of the following primary source quote: "On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell the man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to moderately extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen—but urge me not to use moderation in the cause like the present."

White Southern evangelical churches preached against all the following EXCEPT:

Which of the following represented the largest capital investment in the antebellum South?

Why did slaveholders in the upper South sell their slaves during the antebellum years?

Identify the author of the following primary source quote: "What, to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license. . . . Your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery."

Identify the author of the following primary source quote: "In the opinion of the court, the legislation and histories of the times, and the language used in the Declaration of Independence, show, that neither the class of persons who had been imported as slaves, nor their descendents, whether they had become free or not, were then acknowledged as part of the people, nor intended to be included in the general words used in that memorable instrument."

All of the following were proslavery arguments in the South EXCEPT:

What did John C. Calhoun call Southern slavery in the United States in 1837, an argument later put forward by George Fitzhugh?

Identify the author of the following primary source quote: "I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell his birthday. . . My mother was named Harriet Bailey. . . . My father was a white man."

Cultivation in the Upper South, unlike the Lower South, was focused on:

In North America, slave revolts were ________; in Latin American slave societies, full-scale revolts were ________.