"Give Me Liberty" - Chapter 11: "The Peculiar Institution"

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cotton

What was the major cash crop produced in the antebellum United States?

slave owners considered themselves "father figures"

Define paternalist ethos.

Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee

List examples of Upper South states.

Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana

List examples of Lower South states.

25%

What percent of southern white families owned slaves?

family labor

What source of labor did most southern farmers in the backcountry use?

slave labor

What source of labor did wealthy planters use?

criticism from outsiders

What united rich southern planters and poor southern farmers?

20

How many slaves did a planter own?

Natchez, Mississippi

Where did the wealthiest planters live?

Richmond, VA

Name a southern manufacturing city prior to the Civil War.

John C. Calhoun

Who criticized the Declaration of Independence? He said it was "the most false and dangerous of all political errors".

Celia

What was the name of the slave woman who was sentenced to death for killing her slave owner while resisting a sexual assault?

rising value of slaves made it profitable

Why did southern slaves live in better conditions than those in the Caribbean?

own property

Free blacks in the South were allowed to:

vote

Free blacks in New England were allowed to:

overseer

What was the employee who managed the large gang of slaves on a plantation called?

driver

What was the slave who supervised labor on the plantation called?

task labor

What type of labor allowed slaves to set their own pace?

gang labor

What type of labor forced slaves to work in large groups on cotton plantations?

the sale of a family member

What was the biggest fear of a slave at any age?

it reinforced paternalism

What role did Christianity play in slavery?

slaves of African heritage were a majority

Why did the Haitian slave revolt succeed?

doing poor work

What was an example of "silent sabotage"?

second middle passage

What was the forced migration of slaves from the Upper South to the Lower South called?

New Orleans, Louisiana

What was the largest southern city?