Old Farms
In 1790, the planters of Virginia and South Carolina were among the richest men in the new republic. But international markets for their tobacco and _________ were declining, and they faced uncertain futures.
Rice
Working with Whitney’s cotton gin, a slave could clean ____ pounds of short-staple cotton in a day.
50
A) Number of acres owned
B) Number of slaves owned
B) Number of slaves owned
Which slave right did "benevolent slave owners" see as the most crucial benefit he could give to his slaves to keep morale and productivity high?
A) their own land
B) a weekly allowance
C) the right maintain their own families
C) the right to maintain their own families
The plantation was a profitable business, and it was big. In 1860 the cash value of the southern slave population was $3 ________.
A) Million
B) Billion
B) Billion
With tobacco profits falling, many Chesapeake planters were switching to wheat, corn, and __________.
A) Livestock
B) Cotton
C) Vineyards
A) Livestock
The ______-staple variety of cotton was hardier, but its sticky seeds had to be removed by hand before the cotton could be milled.
A) Short
B) Long
A) Short
Most yeoman areas (were/were not) suitable for plantation crops.
Were Not
Another way in which slave religion differed from what was preached to them by whites was in the practice of conjuring, folk magic, root medicine, and other occult knowledge, most of it passed down from ______ Africa.
West
Economic growth was concentrated on the largest farms, and prosperity and change did not reach far beyond those farms. Planters invested their profits in more _________ and more land.
Slaves
A new division of labor was clearly evident during the wheat harvest. On ________________ farm, for example, male slaves, often working beside temporary white laborers, moved in a broad line as they mowed the grain.
George Washington
The national government made possible the southern Cotton ______ —a region specializing in cotton production that stretched south from South Carolina into Florida and west to eastern Texas by the mid-19th century.
Cotton Belt
No more than _____ percent of southern white families owned at least one slave in 1830, and that percentage dropped as time passed.
A) 15
B) 25
C) 35
C) 35
Which Old Testament figure stood beside Jesus, so to speak, in importance to slaves who practiced Christianity?
Moses
True/False:
Cotton was a labor-intensive crop that discouraged innovation.
True
Which Chesapeake state was more reluctant than the other two to begin manumitting its slaves during the decline of tobacco?
A) Maryland
B) Virginia
C) Delaware
B) Virginia
In total, around _________ slaves were moved from the older slave states westward by 1860.
A) 1,000,000
B) 2,500,000
C) 4,000,000
A) 1,000,000
The mountaineers of the southern Appalachians sent a trickle of livestock and timber out of their neighborhoods, but the mountains remained largely outside the market until the coming of big-business _________ in the late 19th century.
A) Dams
B) Coal Mines
C) Railroad construction
B) Coal Mines
The long slave revolt in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue, which resulted in the independent black republic of ________ in 1804, gave American slave masters reason to fear.
A) Puerto Rico
B) Jamaica
C) Haiti
C) Haiti
The annual rate of return on the larger plantations stood at ____ percent—higher than that of factories or banks.
10
In the plantation counties of coastal South Carolina and Georgia, slaves made up ____ percent of the population.
A) 50
B) 70
C) 80
80%
The burgeoning, and unfortunately booming, interstate slave trade that developed after the Revolutionary War initially developed between Norfolk, VA and what important southern city?
New Orleans
A relatively prosperous backwoods farmer in South Carolina recalled that “My farm gave me and my whole family a good living on the produce of it, and left me, one year after another, one hundred and fifty silver dollars, for I never spent more than ____ dollars a year, which was for salt, nails and the like. Nothing to wear, eat or drink was purchased, as my farm provided all.”
$10
Which American slave revolt, and/or conspiracy of a revolt, caused significant fear in the white population about a slave uprising to come?
A) Denmark Vesey's revolt
B) Nat Turner's revolt
C) Gabriel's revolt
B) Nat Turner
In 1800, about 82 percent of the southern workforce and about 70 percent of the northern workforce were employed in agriculture. By 1860, only _____ percent of the northern workforce was so employed. In the South, the proportion had risen to 84 percent.
A) 20
B) 30
C) 40
C) 40