Author Question: The peculiar institution was a southern reference to A. the plantation. B. manufacturing. ... (Read 42 times)

wenmo · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Though the trade and sale of slaves continued to be legal inside the U.S. until the Civil War, the slave tradethat is, the importation of slaves from Africa or any other foreign localewas made illegal in

A. 1812.

B. 1808.

C. 1809.

D. 1815.

E. None of these answers is correct.

Question 2

The slave codes of the American South

A. banned blacks from attending church.

B. were rigidly enforced.

C. defined anyone with a trace of African ancestry as black.

D. legalized slave marriages.

E. considered it a crime for an owner to kill a slave.

Question 3

In 1850, outside of the United States, slavery in the Western Hemisphere also existed in

A. Haiti.

B. Colombia.

C. the Virgin Islands.

D. no other country.

E. Brazil.

Question 4

Within the American South, the institution of slavery

A. created a unique bond between masters and slaves.

B. encouraged blacks to develop a society and culture of their own.

C. created a unique bond between masters and slaves, while isolating blacks and whites from each other and encouraging blacks to develop a society and culture of their own.

D. None of these answers is correct.

E. isolated blacks and whites from each other.

Question 5

Southern, white, lower-class resentment of the aristocratic system was most likely to be found in

A. the Deep South.

B. the cities.

C. the upper South.

D. river and ocean port towns.

E. the mountain regions.

Question 6

The peculiar institution was a southern reference to

A. the plantation.

B. manufacturing.

C. capitalism.

D. slavery.

E. democracy.