12.1 Peculiar Institution Quiz

The Second Middle Passage refers to: 

the internal slave trade that often transported enslaved Africans from the Upper South to the Lower South

Which of the below describes the false narrative Southern plantation owners propagated of slavery as a benevolent institution for the good of the enslaved?

paternalism

True or False: Slavery was nicknamed the "Peculiar Institution" because the North had mostly abolished it by the mid 19th centuries. 

True

In the Old South, approximately how many families owned more than 100 slaves?

Less than 2,000

Which of the following was a part of slavery's impact on the northern economy?

Profits from the cotton trade helped foster industrial development in the North.

One of the most powerful disciplinary weapon slaveholders possessed was

the threat of sale.