Which of the following plantation values strongly influenced southern life before the Civil War?
slavery, honor, and male domination
The effect of the institution of slavery on southern society was that
whites were unified around race rather than divided by social class.
As late as 1850, there were no statewide public school systems in the South
state legislatures failed to provide many essential services, and planters saw no need to educate their workforce
Plantation owners often described the master-slave relationship in terms of
a concept whereby a slave's labor and obedience were exchanged for the master's care and guidance.
Most white Southerners in the antebellum South
did not own slaves
In the decades after 1820, the most important factor dividing the North and the South was
the existence of an ever-increasing number of slaves in the South
In 1860, the largest number of white Southerners
were nonslaveholding yeoman farmers
According to historians, a planter in the antebellum South may be distinguished from a farmer by virtue of his
owning at least twenty slaves
Southern whites of all classes were unanimous in their commitment to
white supremacy
Because the South lacked economic diversity,
newly arrived European immigrants tended to settle in the North
Initially, the white South defended slavery as a "necessary evil"; eventually, however, southern intellectuals began to argue that slavery was
a positive good because it civilized blacks and brought them Christianity
The staple crop in the tidewater area from the Carolinas into Georgia, which required canals, dikes, and huge numbers of slaves, was
rice.
Which of the following restrictions were placed on the 260,000 free blacks by 1860?
Free blacks were subjected to special taxes, prohibited from interstate travel, denied the right to have schools and to participate in politics, and forced to carry "freedom papers."
A widespread form of protest that particularly angered masters was
running away
Planters in the nineteenth century promoted Christianity in the slave quarters because
they believed that the slaves' salvation was part of their obligation and that religion would make slaves more obedient
Upcountry yeomen, who lived in the hills and mountains,
raised hogs, cattle, and sheep, and sought self-sufficiency and independence.
Plantation mistresses were like slaves in that their husbands
demanded that they be subordinate
At the bottom of the social scale in the South were poor whites, who
worked ambitiously and hoped to move up and away from their miserable living conditions
The southern lady has been idealized in history; in reality
she could have the responsibility of managing servants, directing the slave hospital, and supervising the henhouse and dairy.
Open slave revolts were uncommon in the South because
whites outnumbered blacks two to one by 1860 and were heavily armed, so rebels had almost no chance of success
