Quiz: Chapter 16

The phrase "Cotton Is King" reflected southerners' belief that:

• a. Cotton exports gave the South enormous economic and political leverage
• b. Cotton farming would soon end slavery
• c. The North controlled cotton production
• d. Cotton exports were unimportant

The southern "planter elite" refers to:

• a. A small class of large slaveholders who dominated southern society
• b. Northern factory owners
• c. Enslaved farm laborers
• d. Free Black landowners

Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831) occurred in:

• a. Virginia
• b. Louisiana
• c. South Carolina
• d. Georgia

The rebellion led by Nat Turner resulted in:

• a. Much harsher slave codes across the South
• b. The immediate end of slavery in Virginia
• c. A national emancipation law
• d. No change in southern law

The "positive good" argument claimed that slavery:

• a. Benefited enslaved people, not just enslavers
• b. Was a necessary but regrettable evil
• c. Should be gradually phased out
• d. Violated the Bible

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was written by:

• a. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• b. Frederick Douglass
• c. Harriet Tubman
• d. William Lloyd Garrison

The main effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin was to:

• a. Harden northern antislavery sentiment
• b. End slavery immediately
• c. Strengthen the Fugitive Slave Act
• d. Unite North and South

The Underground Railroad was a:

• a. Secret network helping enslaved people escape to freedom
• b. Literal underground rail line
• c. Government relocation program
• d. Southern railroad company

Harriet Tubman is best known for:

• a. Leading dozens of enslaved people to freedom via the Underground Railroad
• b. Writing Uncle Tom's Cabin
• c. Leading Nat Turner's Rebellion
• d. Founding the Liberator

By 1860, roughly how many African Americans were enslaved in the South?

• a. Nearly four million
• b. About one hundred thousand
• c. About ten million
• d. Fewer than fifty thousand

Most southern whites owned:

• a. Few or no enslaved people
• b. Twenty or more enslaved people
• c. Large cotton plantations
• d. Factories

By 1860, North and South had become:

• a. Starkly different societies economically and culturally
• b. Nearly identical in economy and culture
• c. United on the slavery question
• d. Both industrial economies