Question 1
Most plain folk of the Old South
A. were subsistence farmers who owned at least one slave.
B. were subsistence farmers who were passionately antislavery.
C. were never able to move into the planter class.
D. owned at least one slave.
E. were passionately antislavery.
Question 2
In the 1850s, the southern social theorist George Fitzhugh wrote that women
A. None of these answers is correct.
B. should be the manager of home affairs, while men managed business affairs.
C. had an obligation to speak their minds.
D. possessed as many rights as men.
E. were like children.
Question 3
Sexual relationships between white southern men and female slaves was
A. against the law in all slave states.
B. a common practice.
C. virtually unheard of.
D. an accepted cause for divorce in the southern court system.
E. encouraged by proponents of slavery such as George Fitzhugh.
Question 4
Prior to 1860, southern white women
A. were not expected to engage in manual labor, whatever their social standing.
B. had a birth rate that was lower than the national average.
C. had about the same access to education as northern white women.
D. generally lived lives that were isolated from the wider world.
E. were more likely to see their children grow to adulthood than northern white women.
Question 5
Prior to 1860, southern women differed from northern women in that they
A. tended to have more formal education.
B. were expected to be more subordinate to men.
C. had fewer children.
D. were more likely to take a role in public activities.
E. generally were less engaged with the economic life of the family.
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