Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Like rice and sugar, ______ did not enjoy widespread success in the South because it could only be grown in limited areas in the coastal regions of the Southeast.

long-staple cotton

Which of the following contributed to the slow development of industry in the South?

-inadequate transportation system

-booming agricultural expansion

Which of the following contributed to how the South remained so different from the North?

-The southern economy was tied to a culture that celebrated the wealth of planters and viewed slavery as a benevolent institution.

-While the agricultural economy of the Northeast had declined, that of the South was booming.

True or false: Most white southerners were wealthy, landowning planters who lived on large plantations.

False (Reason: Although many southerners hoped to portray this image, very few lived this lifestyle.)

Most affluent southern white women engaged in all of the following except

public activities.

Why did tobacco cultivation move westward in the 1830s?

Tobacco farming had exhausted the land, so farmers had to switch to other crops.

Nonslaveholding whites who lived in backcountry areas like the Appalachians and Ozarks were known as

hill people.

Which of these forms of transportation were either nonexistent or inadequately developed in the South prior to the Civil War?

-canals

-finished roads

-railroads

What social effects did slavery have on southerners?

-Southern blacks developed a culture different from that of southern whites

-It created a unique bond of mutual reliance between masters and slaves.

-It segregated blacks from whites.

What factors may have stymied industrial development in the South?

-the southern climate

-the southern culture

-the booming agricultural economy

Which of the following was part of the slave codes?

Whites could not teach slaves to read or write.

Which of the following best describes how members of the white southern upper class viewed themselves?

as true aristocrats, much like those in the Old World

Most slaves received which of the following?

-a simple but adequate diet

-cheap clothing and shoes

As compared to the lives of women in the North, affluent white women in the South

were even more subordinate to men.

Urban slaves often had more freedom than rural slaves because urban slaves

were often hired out to work as day laborers.

Which of the following most helps to describe the animosity that many "hill people" had for the planter aristocracy?

They were unconnected to the cotton economy.

From the 1830s on, state laws governing slavery made it much more difficult for owners to set their slaves free, in part because

Nat Turner's revolt had prompted fears of further revolts among white southerners.

When white southerners referred to slavery as the "peculiar institution," they usually meant that it was

distinctive and special.

Which musical instrument, often made by African Americans out of whatever materials were at hand, became particularly important to slave music?

banjo

How did the slave codes define a person's race?

Individuals with a presumed trace of African ancestry were black.

The most widespread method slaves used to defy their masters was

everyday forms of resistance, such as refusing to work hard.

Which of the following describe the lives of slaves in the South?

-They lived in rough cabins called "slave quarters."

-Slave women labored in the fields and also cooked and cleaned.

The lives of slaves in the city differed from the lives of their plantation counterparts in which of the following ways?

-Urban slaves had more contact with free blacks and lower-class whites.

-Urban slaves had more freedom to move about during the day.

Although some slaves were able to buy their freedom in the early 1830s, most could not, because

few masters were willing to allow it.

The common language developed by American slaves is known as

pidgin.

Gabriel Prosser

He gathered 1,000 slave rebels outside Richmond, but was given away by two African Americans and his plot was stymied before it could begin.

Denmark Vessey

He planned a thwarted slave rebellion near Charleston, South Carolina, which may have included over 9,000 slaves.

Nat Turner

He led a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, that killed 60 white people before being overpowered by state and federal troops.