Old Farms: The Southeast
In 1790, the planters of _________ and South Carolina were among the richest men in the new republic.
A) Alabama
B) Maryland
C) Virginia
Virginia
Along with the profitability of short-staple cotton, it was the national government that made possible the southern Cotton ______—a region specializing in cotton production that stretched south from South Carolina into Florida and west to eastern Texas.
Belt
True/False: Cotton, like other plantation crops, rewarded economies of scale.
True
The most precious privilege on Chesapeake plantations had been the right to live in _______.
A) Families
B) The Master's house
A) Families
True/False: In 1860 the cash value of the southern slave population was $3 billion. That was more than the value of investments in banking, railroads, and manufacturing combined.
True
Which Chesapeake crop depleted the area's soil and became less in demand after the Revolutionary War?
A) Rice
B) Tobacco
C) Wheat
Tobacco
The U.S. was _______ all other industrializing nations in that it both grew and manufactured its own cotton.
A) Unique to
B) Similar to
Only 30-35% of southern white families owned at least one slave in 1830, and that percentage _______ as time passed.
A) Increased
B) Dropped
The child born from a white slave owner and a female slave was ______.
A) Free
B) A slave
B) A slave
In the South, economic growth during the "Marked Revolution" produced more _______ and more slavery and comparatively little else.
Cotton
The shift to _______ in the Chesapeake Region shifted the labor demands, and need, for slaves. Slave men and women saw their roles begin to shift.
Wheat
By 1834, the new states of Alabama, Mississippi, and _________ grew more than half of a vastly increased U.S. cotton crop.
Louisiana
To be determined a "yeoman farmer", a Southerner had to own less than _____ slaves.
20
Between the Revolution and 1820, Chesapeake slaves embraced Christianity and began to turn it into a religion of their own. Slaves attended camp meetings, listened to itinerant preachers (those who usually lacked their own parish and therefore traveled from place to place), and joined the ______ and Methodist congregations of the southern revival.
A) Presbyterian
B) Baptist
Baptist
True/False: Southern state governments spent comparatively little on _________ improvements—there was no southern transportation revolution.
Name the three Chesapeake states who gradually emancipated a decent number of slaves between 1780-1810.
Maryland, Virginia, Delaware
By the Civil War, America’s nearly four million slaves were worth more than $___ billion, or about 20 percent of all the wealth owned by U.S. citizens.
$3
Most yeomen....
A) Lived away from plantations with few slaves but stayed in the Cotton Belt
B) Moved to the NW Territory, where slavery was illegal, because they could not afford to stay in the Cotton Belt
A) Lived away from plantations with few slaves but stayed in the Cotton Belt
One planter insisted that “it is better to buy none in families, but to select only choice, first rate, young hands from 14 to ____ years of age (buying no children or aged negroes).”
25
In 1800, about 82% of the southern workforce and about 70% of the northern workforce were employed in agriculture. By 1860, only 40% of the northern workforce was so employed. In the South, the proportion had risen to ____%.
84%
Lowcountry planters, unlike their Chesapeake counterparts, could not imagine emancipating their slaves. They also knew the Constitution outlawed the African slave trade in _________.
1808
The cotton gin allowed Southern planters (and their slaves) to clean/bale ____x's more cotton per day than doing that chore by hand.
A) 10
B) 30
C) 50
50
A common criticism of Northern farmers towards their Southern counterparts was the dilapidated state of Southern _______.
A) Barns
B) Fences
C) Banks
B) Fences
What word describes the POV of slave owners and how they "cared for, and took care of" their slaves?
Paternalism
Which Southern state had the largest percentage of urban dwellers by 1840...even though it was only 6.9%?
Virginia