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Question 1

What percentage of Southern slaves worked in mining, lumbering, industry and construction in 1850?
 
  A) 5
  B) 10
  C) 15
  D) 20

Question 2

Which of the following crops would have been LEAST likely to be grown with slave labor in the South?
 
  A) tobacco
  B) cotton
  C) rice
  D) corn

Question 3

Which one of the following had slaves but no cotton production in 1860?
 
  A) Maryland
  B) South Carolina
  C) Tennessee
  D) Florida

Question 4

For slaves, a disadvantage of being a house servant was:
 
  A) worse food and clothing than field workers.
  B) constant, humiliating contact with whites.
  C) harder work than field hands.
  D) fewer opportunities to learn a skilled trade.



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Answer 1

Answer: B

Answer 2

Answer: D

Answer 3

Answer: A

Answer 4

Answer: B



joblessjake

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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again



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