Ch 12. Living with Slavery, North and South: 1820 - 1850

Who influenced Theodore Dwight Weld and inspired his abolitionist activism in New York state?

Charles Finney

Which of the following Christian messages did planters NOT want their slaves to embrace and take to heart too closely?

equality

Which of the following prompted the black codes of Washington D.C. to become stiffer in the early nineteenth century?

the Nat Turner Rebellion

According to Hinton Helper, the North Carolinian author of the book The Impending Crisis of the South, who were the true victims of the system of plantation slavery?

white men who did not own slaves

Why did pro-slavery mobs in Illinois attack the printer and editor Elijah Lovejoy in Alton, Illinois, in the 1830s?

He was an abolitionist.

Why did the southern yeoman ideal recede farther and farther beyond most southern men's reach from the 1830s onward?

The profits of cotton pushed its expansion and claim on land over that of other crops.

Women like Frances Wright, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and others who stood at podiums to speak out against slavery often

risked ridicule and physical harm.

For Harriet Beecher Stowe, what was at the heart of the cruelty of southern slavery?

family

Ensuring that slaves did not run away to the northern states had which of the following benefits for southerners?

It maintained the number of their seats in the House.

According to Southern planters, paternalism offered the ideal of constituting all plantation relations into

a harmonious whole.

Which of the following was NOT one of the key ingredients to the common bond of white racial superiority over blacks?

sexual prowess

What did the slave Harriet Jacobs have to do in order to escape into freedom in New York City and Boston?

hide in an attic for seven years

Which of the following did slave children on larger plantations have more of than the white children of their wealthy master?

aunties

Who presided over Thomas Garrett's final court case in 1848?

Roger Taney

Compared to the dwellings of impoverished Europeans, visitors remarked, the slave huts on larger plantations in the antebellum years were

neat and comfortable.