Author Question: In the aftermath of Nat Turner's rebellion, the Virginia legislature: A) debated and defeated a ... (Read 59 times)

SGallaher96 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

The short-lived Philadelphia Working Men's Party is an early example of:

A) labor union organization.
B) democratic, non-deferential politics.
C) rejection of urban communities.
D) agrarian idealism.

Question 2

In the 1850s, the most profitable activity a slave-owning planter in the Upper South might pursue was:

A) growing cotton.
B) selling slaves to the Lower South.
C) investing in Southern industry.
D) freeing his slaves and hiring them back as free labor.

Question 3

After Hinton Helper published The Impending Crisis:

A) most Southerners congratulated him.
B) he was forced to move away from North Carolina.
C) Northern states banned its circulation.
D) Southern support for slavery rapidly eroded.

Question 4

What little humanity survived in the southern slave system should be credited to:

A) kind masters.
B) loving plantation mistresses.
C) legal protections of slaves.
D) the slaves themselves.

Question 5

In the aftermath of Nat Turner's rebellion, the Virginia legislature:

A) debated and defeated a proposal on gradual abolition.
B) immediately voted to require the death penalty for any rebellious slave.
C) passed a law permitting masters to manumit their slaves.
D) petitioned Congress to reopen the international slave trade.