UNT HIST 2610 FINAL EXAM (McCaslin)
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1. a black conspiracy to seize What was the Vesey conspiracy?
Charleston
2. Rice The cultivation of which crop required slaves to work in
a "task system"?
3. the economic activities of the What is meant by the "underground economy" of the
slaves outside their normal duties slaves?
4. on plantations with 20 or more Where did most African Americans in the nineteenth
slaves century experience slavery?
5. Slaves had to work in the night Why were the mortality rates in the plantations of
during harvest season (Sugar Louisiana often very high?
plantations in Louisiana were
harsher than cotton plantations)
6. Slaves in the cities did a wider How were the lives of urban slaves different from those
range of jobs and enjoyed more of slaves working on cotton plantations?
autonomy
7. It resulted in the formation of fe- What impact did the relocation of slaves' spouses to
male-dominated families different plantations or farms have on slave families?
8. self-made men Most of the great planters of the pre-Civil War period
were ______.
9. 25 percent About what percent of white southerners were members
of slaveholding families?
10. The degraded status of the blacks How did the non-slaveholding farmers come to depend
made them feel good about them- on the blacks?
selves
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11. The planters saw themselves in Why did the planters refer to the slaves as "our people"?
the role of parents
12. Servitude was good for African What did Thomas Reade Cobb mean when he wrote
Americans "a state of bondage, so far from doing violence to the
law of [the African's] nature, develops and perfects it"?
..........................................................................................
13. Sugar What was the major cash crop found in Louisiana be-
tween New Orleans and Baton Rouge?
14. by monopolizing land along the How did large cotton planters lower their transportation
rivers, the South's natural trans- costs?
portation arteries
15. Georgia and South Carolina Which were the first cotton-producing areas of the Unit-
ed States?
16. Slaves were less crucial to the re- Why did public loyalty to the institution of slavery in the
gion's growing industrial sector Upper South gradually decline?
and diversified agriculture
17. Profits from the slave trade were Why didn't slavery decline in the South during the
comparable to those of the most mid-nineteenth century despite the attractions of a
lucrative industries booming industrialized economy in the North?
18. Cotton exhausted soils, and the Why didn't the rise of the Cotton Kingdom bring uniform
cotton market was subject to prosperity to the Lower South?
boom and bust cycles.
19. They set the values for much of What impact did great planters have on society in the
the rest of society. Deep South?
20. It was still growing.
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1. a black conspiracy to seize What was the Vesey conspiracy?
Charleston
2. Rice The cultivation of which crop required slaves to work in
a "task system"?
3. the economic activities of the What is meant by the "underground economy" of the
slaves outside their normal duties slaves?
4. on plantations with 20 or more Where did most African Americans in the nineteenth
slaves century experience slavery?
5. Slaves had to work in the night Why were the mortality rates in the plantations of
during harvest season (Sugar Louisiana often very high?
plantations in Louisiana were
harsher than cotton plantations)
6. Slaves in the cities did a wider How were the lives of urban slaves different from those
range of jobs and enjoyed more of slaves working on cotton plantations?
autonomy
7. It resulted in the formation of fe- What impact did the relocation of slaves' spouses to
male-dominated families different plantations or farms have on slave families?
8. self-made men Most of the great planters of the pre-Civil War period
were ______.
9. 25 percent About what percent of white southerners were members
of slaveholding families?
10. The degraded status of the blacks How did the non-slaveholding farmers come to depend
made them feel good about them- on the blacks?
selves
, UNT HIST 2610 FINAL EXAM (McCaslin)
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_2wmbng
11. The planters saw themselves in Why did the planters refer to the slaves as "our people"?
the role of parents
12. Servitude was good for African What did Thomas Reade Cobb mean when he wrote
Americans "a state of bondage, so far from doing violence to the
law of [the African's] nature, develops and perfects it"?
..........................................................................................
13. Sugar What was the major cash crop found in Louisiana be-
tween New Orleans and Baton Rouge?
14. by monopolizing land along the How did large cotton planters lower their transportation
rivers, the South's natural trans- costs?
portation arteries
15. Georgia and South Carolina Which were the first cotton-producing areas of the Unit-
ed States?
16. Slaves were less crucial to the re- Why did public loyalty to the institution of slavery in the
gion's growing industrial sector Upper South gradually decline?
and diversified agriculture
17. Profits from the slave trade were Why didn't slavery decline in the South during the
comparable to those of the most mid-nineteenth century despite the attractions of a
lucrative industries booming industrialized economy in the North?
18. Cotton exhausted soils, and the Why didn't the rise of the Cotton Kingdom bring uniform
cotton market was subject to prosperity to the Lower South?
boom and bust cycles.
19. They set the values for much of What impact did great planters have on society in the
the rest of society. Deep South?
20. It was still growing.
