Author Question: While slavery and slave owners dominated the South and its economic system, this number of ... (Read 61 times)

torybrooks · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

By the 1840s, the large number of free blacks in Charleston resulted in:

A) most free blacks being reinslaved.
B) free blacks being made to wear badges.
C) free blacks being given legal equality with whites.
D) South Carolina passing a law expelling free blacks.

Question 2

The expansion of slavery in the Old Southwest was directly linked to:

A) the expansion of cotton production.
B) the growth of a diverse economy.
C) rapid urbanization.
D) the international slave trade.

Question 3

Which one of the following was NOT true of southern plain folk?

A) self-sufficient property owners
B) lived in small family-based communities
C) usually lived up-country
D) favored industrialization over slavery

Question 4

Georgian Robert Smith is an example of a/n:

A) small yeoman farmer.
B) landless white.
C) large planter.
D) Southern abolitionist.

Question 5

While slavery and slave owners dominated the South and its economic system, this number of southerners did NOT own slaves.

A) one-half
B) three-fifths
C) two-thirds
D) three-quarters