Question 1

​In Varying Viewpoints: What Was the True Nature of Slavery, the contemporary historian Eugene Genovese agrees with previous historians of American slavery that

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A)  this southern institution embraced a form of economic paternalism which reflected the need of southern slaveholders to control and coax labor out of their reluctant and recalcitrant "investments."
B)  southern slaveholders actually treated slaves with a kindly and caring paternalism throughout the lives of most slaves.
C)  blacks were inferior and submissive by nature, facilitating their participation in the institution of southern slavery.
D)  blacks did not abhor the coercive social and economic institution that enslaved them.
E)  this southern institution was not underpinned by racist attitudes by southern slaveholders and most other southerners as well.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 2

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions.
-After 1830, the abolitionist movement took a new, more energetic tone, encouraged by the

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A)  success of the British abolitionists in having slavery abolished in the British West Indies.
B)  religious spirit of the Second Great Awakening.
C)  success of the American Colonization Society.
D)  success of several southern slave insurrections.
E)  widespread support for antislavery action in the North.F) None of the above
G) C) and D)

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-​breakers

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Question 4

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions.
-Slaves were

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A)  regarded primarily as financial investments by their owners.
B)  the primary form of wealth in the South.
C)  profitable for their owners.
D)  never bred like cattle.
E)  denied the opportunity to develop any kind of family life by white slaveholders.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 5

All of the following were characteristic of slaves in the mid-nineteenth century United States except

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A)  slaves had no civil or political rights.
B)  slaves usually toiled from dusk to dawn in the fields.
C)  slaves had minimal protection from murder or unusually cruel punishment.
D)  slaves were forbidden to testify in court and their marriages were not legal.
E)  floggings were very uncommon and rare.F) D) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"positive good"

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The term "positive good" is historically...

Question 7

The idea of recolonizing blacks back to Africa was

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A)  proposed by Timothy Dwight Weld.
B)  proposed by John Quincy Adams.
C)  advocated by Frederick Douglass.
D)  suggested by political leaders of the African nation of Liberia.
E)  supported by the black leader Martin Delaney.F) D) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 8

To what extent were cotton production and slavery more a burden to the South than a benefit? Use specific political, economic, and social arguments to support your argument.

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Cotton production and slavery were undou...

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-​black belt

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The term "Black Belt" has multiple histo...

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Sojourner Truth

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Question 11

The majority of southern whites owned no slaves because

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A)  they opposed slavery.
B)  they could not afford the purchase price.
C)  their urban location did not require them.
D)  their racism would not allow them to work alongside African Americans.
E)  they feared the possibility of slave revolts.F) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 12

It has been argued that both Britain and the North were inextricably tied to the South with "cotton threads." Explain and defend or attack the legitimacy of this assertion.

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Question 13

Slaves fought the system of slavery by

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A)  slowing down the pace of their labor.
B)  conducting periodic slave rebellions.
C)  sabotaging expensive equipment.
D)  running away from their masters.
E)  All of these choices are correct.F) B) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-​Liberia

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Liberia is a country located on the West...

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Mason-Dixon line​

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The Mason-Dixon Line is a historically s...

Question 16

As their main agricultural crop, southern subsistence farmers raised

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A)  cotton.
B)  tobacco.
C)  corn.
D)  wheat.
E)  sugar cane.F) B) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 17

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions.
-The South's "positive good" argument for slavery claimed that

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A)  slavery was supported by the authority of both the Bible and the Constitution.
B)  slavery was good for the barbarous Africans because enslavement introduced them to Christianity.
C)  slaves benefited from receiving education and job training.
D)  slaves were usually treated as members of the family.
E)  slaves were better off than most northern wage earners.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Nat Turner

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Nat Turner was an African American slave...

Question 19

To what extent were abolitionists extremists when they undertook to abolish slavery? How did the goals, strategies, and tactics of abolitionists change before the onset of the Civil War?

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The extent to which abolitionists were c...

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-​William T. Johnson

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William T. Johnson, also known as Willia...

Exam 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​William T. Johnson

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It has been argued that both Britain and the North were inextricably tied to the South with "cotton threads." Explain and defend or attack the legitimacy of this assertion.

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