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Who was the South's biggest foreign trade partner?
a) France
b) Canada
c) the United States
d) England
What state led the United States in sugarcane production in the mid-1800s?
a) Mississippi
b) Texas
c) Louisiana
d) Florida
Which of the following is not an example of cash crops?
a) corn
b) tobacco
c) indigo
d) rice
With the invention of the cotton gin, what happened to slavery?
a) It stayed the same
b) It increased
c) It decreased
d) None of the answers are correct
Where did Northerners get their information about slavery.
a) From escaped slaves
b) books
c) newspapers
d) All of the answers
What is the domestic slave trade?
a) the breeding and selling of slaves in the United States
b) the importation and selling of slaves in the United States
c) the selling and shipping of slaves from the United States to other countries
d) None of the answers are correct
Who was Nat Turner?
a) An escaped slave who returned to his owner's plantation and began a rebellion killing almost 100 white people.
b) An escaped slave who led a rebellion to steal weapons from the government and use them to attack slave owners.
c) A slave who started a rebellion that killed over 60 white people. He was caught and hung.
d) The inventor of the cotton gin.
What is a driver?
a) A white man who has been hired to keep the slaves in line.
b) A slave whose job it is to keep other slaves in line.
c) A slave whose job it is to drive the plantation owner wherever he needs to go.
d) A person whose job it is to drive the oxen and horses in the fields with a plow.
What is an overseer?
a) A white man hired by a plantation owner to make sure the slaved are doing what they are supposed to do.
b) A slave whose job it is to keep other slaves in line.
c) An accountant whose job it is to make sure all finances are handled properly.
d) The owner of a plantation.
Who invented the cotton gin?
a) Francis Lowell
b) Samuel Slater
c) Benjamin Franklin
d) Eli Whitney
A region of land stretching from Texas to Maryland where most cotton is grown.
a) slave belt
b) crop belt
c) cotton belt
d) coastal plain
A plantation owner who owned 20 or more slaves.
a) yeomen
b) planter
c) overseer
d) driver
A machine used to separate cotton seeds from their fibers.
a) cotton gin
b) textile mill
c) fiber gin
d) Eli Whitney
What percentage of Southern families actually owned slaves?
a) About 33%
b) About 50%
c) About 25%
d) Almost 100%
Many states in the South passed these laws to control slaves.
a) None of the answers is correct
b) Discrimination Act of 1821
c) slave laws
d) slave codes
Slaves were viewed as _____.
a) property
b) inferior
c) a sign of wealth
d) all of the above
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