Why did many southern cities and states pass laws to limit the rights of freed slaves?

Citizens feared freed slaves would try slave rebellions.

What was responsible for increasing the domestic slave trade in the early 1800s?

Congress banned the importation of slaves into the country.

Nat Turner’s Rebellion was what?

most violent slave uprising in the United States.

What were slave codes?

Strict state laws that controlled the actions of slaves.

Free African Americans in the 1830s could do what?

engage in business transactions.

How did Eli Whitney’s original cotton gin work?

Cranked the machine and “teeth” separated seeds from cotton.

How did enslaved parents pass their culture down to their children?

They told folktales with traditional characters and morals.

Nat Turner led a group of slaves to kill slaveholders because he...

believed he was on a mission from God to free the slaves.

Why did the value of slaves decrease in the South following the American Revolution?

Crop prices fell and the demand for slaves decreased.

Which statement about free African Americans in the 1860s is true?

Some of them were descendants of the Haitian Revolution.

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Chapter 13 The South

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Why did many southern cities and states pass laws to limit the rights of freed slaves?
Citizens feared freed slaves would try slave rebellions.
Governments wanted to teach that freedom brings problems.
Churches were losing members to the independent movement.
Lawmakers felt freed slaves had not earned citizenship.
2
What was responsible for increasing the domestic slave trade in the early 1800s?
Some leaders wanted the South to grow a variety of crops.
Congress banned the importation of slaves into the country.
Farmers eager for profits headed west in search of land.
Stronger types of cotton began to emerge.
3
Nat Turner’s Rebellion was what?
least damaging uprising to the abolitionist cause.
most violent slave uprising in the United States.
most effective revolt at stemming the spread of slavery.
least popular political revolt in U.S. history.
4
What were slave codes?
The policy of slaves to always help one another.
A secret language slaves used to communicate.
A set of rules for slave behavior set by a council.
Strict state laws that controlled the actions of slaves.
5
Free African Americans in the 1830s could do what?
travel nationwide without restriction.
engage in business transactions.
hold any job they desired.
vote in presidential elections.
6
How did Eli Whitney’s original cotton gin work?
Cranked the machine and “teeth” separated seeds from cotton.
An engine ran the machine which removed seeds from cotton.
Cotton was put in the box, which seeded and tied the fibers.
Horses drew the machine through seed cotton to harvest.
7
How did enslaved parents pass their culture down to their children?
They showed their children how to outsmart slaveholders.
They taught children Christian songs about freedom.
They told the children tales of the exodus from slavery.
They told folktales with traditional characters and morals.
8
Nat Turner led a group of slaves to kill slaveholders because he...
believed he was on a mission from God to free the slaves.
watched his father die as a result of a beating by master.
had tried and failed at non-violent methods of resistance.
was inspired by the success of other violent slave revolts.
9
Why did the value of slaves decrease in the South following the American Revolution?
Crop prices fell and the demand for slaves decreased.
Slaves launched rebellions throughout the South.
The practice of slavery became unpopular in the South.
Slaves began to escape to the North.
10
Which statement about free African Americans in the 1860s is true?
Many of them joined unions to help them bargain for wages.
They moved to states in the North after gaining freedom.
None of them had been willingly freed by their slaveholders.
Some of them were descendants of the Haitian Revolution.

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