US History I Questions!?

[muireach]

As compared to nineteenth-century white practices, religious services for American slaves



a. were not allowed, by law, to mention freedom.

b. were often more emotional.

c. were generally more despondent and melancholy than white services.

d. denied all references to their African heritage.

e. emphasized subservience and submission to God.

Save Answer

20.
(Points: 1)
In the American slave family,



a. most couples did not formally marry.

b. black women typically began bearing children later than white women.

c. premarital pregnancy was uncommon.

d. extended kinship networks were strong and important.

e. premarital cohabitation was frowned upon.

Save Answer

21.
(Points: 1)
Which of the following is true of American slave families in the antebellum South?



a. A child of a slave could not be sold after he or she had reached three years of age.

b. Blacks typically had weaker family ties than did whites, due to the uncertainties of their lives.

c. Up to one-third of families were broken apart by the sale of family members.

d. Most slaves who ran away did so to avoid punishment.

e. Newly arrived slaves to a plantation were often shunned by the black community.

The central ideology of slavery, and the vital instrument of white control, was



a. fraternity.

b. maternalism.

c. paternalism.

d. sorority.

e. egalitarianism.

Save Answer

24.
(Points: 1)
Prior to 1860, the center of economic power in the South



a. was in Charleston, S.C.

b. remained as it had been primarily within the upper South.

c. remained as it had been primarily within the lower South.

d. shifted from the lower South to the upper South.

e. shifted from the upper South to the lower South.

Save Answer

25.
(Points: 1)
Rice and sugar production in the antebellum South



a. had short growing seasons.

b. were concentrated in a relatively small geographic area.

c. had difficulty sustaining profits for growers.

d. was in considerable decline by the 1850s.

e. threatened to overwhelm cotton production in the lower South.

Save Answer

26.
(Points: 1)
By the time of the Civil War, cotton constituted nearly ________ of the total export trade of the United States.



a. one-fourth

b. one-tenth

c. one-third

d. half

e. two-thirds

Save Answer

27.
(Points: 1)
Most white southerners owned



a. no slaves.

b. one slave.

c. two slaves.

d. three to five slaves.

e. six to ten slaves.

[bedyw25]

D C A B E B B A.

You may want to actually read your book before you submit this test.