Topic 8.6-8.9 assessment

White Southerners who owned small farms that produced crops for their own use and to trade with local merchants were called

What was the primary reason for slave codes?

What was the most common form of resistance practiced by enslaved African Americans?

By the mid-1800s, the largest cities in the South had developed along

“We were worked in all weathers. It was never too hot or too cold; it could never rain, blow, hail, or snow, too hard for us to work in the field. . . The longest days were too short for him [Mr. Covey], and the shortest nights too long for him. I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went there, but a few months of this discipline tamed me.” —Frederick Douglass, 1845 Frederick Douglass was born into slavery but escaped as a young man. In this excerpt from his autobiography, he describes his experiences with a farmer named Edward Covey. This passage from Douglass’s autobiography particularly highlights

“We were worked in all weathers. It was never too hot or too cold; it could never rain, blow, hail, or snow, too hard for us to work in the field. . . The longest days were too short for him [Mr. Covey], and the shortest nights too long for him. I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went there, but a few months of this discipline tamed me.” —Frederick Douglass, 1845 Based on the passage, how did Douglass change after he began working for Covey?

White women in the West often had more rights than women in other regions of the United States because

If we do not prepare children to be good citizens; if we do not develop their capacities, if we do not enrich their minds with knowledge, imbue their hearts with love of truth and duty, and a reverence for all things sacred and holy, then our republic must go down to destruction as others have gone before it. ~Horace Mann, quoted in A Century of Childhood (Heininger) Which of the following best summarizes Horace Mann's beliefs?

We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; ~He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise…. ~He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice…. ~He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead... ~He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns… ~After depriving her of all rights as a married woman, if single and the owner of property, he has taxed her to support a government which recognizes her only when her property can be made profitable to it… What is one example that the Declaration of Sentiments gives of women's inequality?