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urbanoutfitters · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

The southern planter class exercised power far in excess of its numbers.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Question 2

The North, unlike the South, experienced great economic growth in the mid-nineteenth century.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Question 3

Which of the following is true of American slave families in the antebellum South?

A. Up to one-third of families were broken apart by the sale of family members.

B. Blacks typically had weaker family ties than did whites, due to the uncertainties of their lives.

C. A child of a slave could not be sold after he or she had reached three years of age.

D. Newly arrived slaves to a plantation were often shunned by the black community.

E. Most slaves who ran away did so to avoid punishment.

Question 4

The central ideology of slavery, and the vital instrument of white control, was

A. paternalism.

B. egalitarianism.

C. maternalism.

D. fraternity.

E. sorority.

Question 5

In the American slave family,

A. premarital cohabitation was frowned upon.

B. most couples did not formally marry.

C. extended kinship networks were strong and important.

D. premarital pregnancy was uncommon.

E. black women typically began bearing children later than white women.

Question 6

Regarding religion, American slaves

A. shunned Christianity in favor of the polytheistic traditions of Africa.

B. were usually not allowed to attend a church at all.

C. had mostly converted to Islam by the early nineteenth century.

D. often incorporated African features into their Christianity.

E. were expected to worship in black churches separate from whites.