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Antebellum America

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  • Q1
    All of the following crops dominated southern agriculture EXCEPT:
    Cotton
    Indigo
    Wheat
    Tobacco
    30s
  • Q2
    The cotton gin, invented by this man, revolutionized the removal of cottonseeds from cotton.
    Frederick Douglas
    Eli Whitney
    Sojourner Truth
    Nat Turner
    30s
  • Q3
    Of the following, who was the richest and thus top level of society?
    Yeomen
    Planters
    Freed African Americans
    Poor Whites
    30s
  • Q4
    Which of the following were slaves in the south NOT allowed to do?
    Harvest Cotton
    Take care of small children
    Be skilled laborers
    Read and Write
    30s
  • Q5
    This slave spent some time in Illinois, a free state, and thus sued for his freedom. The Supreme Court ruled he was still a slave.
    William Lloyd Garrison
    Frederick Douglas
    Nat Turner
    Dred Scott
    30s
  • Q6
    Which word doesn't match the other 3?
    Plantations
    Slavery
    Cotton Belt
    North
    30s
  • Q7
    Which word doesn't match the other 3?
    Religion
    Education
    Folktales
    Spirituals
    30s
  • Q8
    Which of the following helped enslaved African Americans to endure and survive slavery?
    Slave Codes
    Spirituals
    Their Work
    Rebellion
    30s
  • Q9
    What effect did the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" have?
    Electrified the nation
    Increased abolitionist support
    All answers are correct.
    Sparked outrage in the South
    30s
  • Q10
    What is a CASH CROP?
    Crops that are grown exclusively to feed a society
    Crops that are grown to be sold or exported
    Wheat, Rice and Sugar
    Any job in society that makes a lot of money
    30s
  • Q11
    Stories that often provide a moral lesson and help young slaves learn how to live in slave society.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    Folktales
    Abolitionist
    Fugitive Slave Act
    30s
  • Q12
    What are laws passed that greatly restricted the rights of slaves called?
    Anti-Slave Rebellion Laws
    Underground Railroad
    Slave Codes
    Fugitive Slave Act
    30s
  • Q13
    Who was Nat Turner?
    Abolitionist who helped slaves escape thru the UGRR
    Slave leader who led a rebellion to end slavery
    Famous singer and song writer of the day
    Editor of the antislavery paper The Liberator
    30s
  • Q14
    A person that wants to do away with slavery.
    Suffragette
    Abolitionist
    Tempratist
    Progressive
    30s
  • Q15
    What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
    A person that wants to do away with slavery
    Laws passed that greatly restricted the rights of slaves
    A law that made it a crime to help escaped slaves
    Anti-slave Rebellion Law
    30s

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