Chapter 13: The South

Question 1

What were slave codes?

Accepted Answer

strict laws that controlled actions of slaves

Question 2

The ___________ was an area stretching from South Carolina to Texas, grew most of the cotton.

Accepted Answer

cotton belt

Question 3

Planting different crops on the same plot of land every few years...

Accepted Answer

crop rotation

Question 4

How did most planters encourage slave obedience?

Accepted Answer

through physical punishments

Question 5

What advantage did skilled slaves have over unskilled slaves?

Accepted Answer

earning money to buy their freedom

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

told folktales

Question 7

Nat Turner's Rebellion was...

Accepted Answer

most violent uprising in the US

Question 8

One of the most productive industrial factories in the South in the 1800s...

Accepted Answer

Tredegar Iron Works

Question 9

What was the main problem with the production of tobacco before the 1840s?

Accepted Answer

Tobacco needed to be dried before shipping.

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

Congress banned the importation of slaves

Question 11

Most of the South's big cities had started as...

Accepted Answer

shipping centers.

Question 12

Why were slaves uneducated?

Accepted Answer

teaching slaves was prohibited in most states

Question 13

Southern owners of small farms with few slaves are...

Accepted Answer

yeomen

Question 14

______________________ means changing the crop grown on a section of land every few years.

Accepted Answer

crop rotation

Question 15

Slaves were most commonly sold at ______________________.

Accepted Answer

auctions

Question 16

Emotional Christian songs sung by slaves...

Accepted Answer

spirituals

Question 17

Unlike slaves on plantations, slaves working in the planters' house usually...

Accepted Answer

had better food, clothing and shelter

Question 18

In the first half of the 1800s, what portion of white southern families had slaves?

Accepted Answer

one-third

Question 19

What were spirituals?

Accepted Answer

emotional Christian songs sung by slaves

Question 20

Wealthy white southerners used religion to justify the institution of slavery by arguing that

Accepted Answer

God created some people to rule over others

Question 21

Slave whose violent rebellion led many states to strengthen their slave codes...

Accepted Answer

Nat Turner

Question 22

Crop brokers called ______________________ made deals with merchants.

Accepted Answer

factors

Question 23

Used the labor of all field hands on the same task at the same time...

Accepted Answer

gang-labor system

Question 24

Who patented the cotton gin in 1793?

Accepted Answer

Eli Whitney

Question 25

Crop brokers who managed the trading of cotton...

Accepted Answer

factors

Question 26

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

Accepted Answer

Crop prices fell and the demand for slaves decreased.

Question 27

Area of high cotton production in the South...

Accepted Answer

cotton belt

Question 28

Large scale southern farmers who owned more than 20 slaves...

Accepted Answer

planters

Question 29

______________________ owned small farms and often worked alongside their slaves.

Accepted Answer

Yeomen

Question 30

What was the effect of Nat Turner's rebellion of 1831?

Accepted Answer

Slave codes were taughened.

Question 31

What happened to Nat Turner after the rebellion he started in 1831?

Accepted Answer

He was sentenced to death.

Question 32

In what way did slaves rebel against long working hours?

Accepted Answer

The slowed down their work in the fields.

Question 33

The South's first major cash crop was _____________________.

Accepted Answer

tobacco

Question 34

What was the "cotton belt"?

Accepted Answer

South Carolina to Texas, grew most of the cotton

Chapter 13: The South

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Chapter 13: The South

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