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APush Chapter 16
Chapter 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| By 1840, cotton had become central to the whole American economy because | cotton exports provided much of the capital that fueled American economic growth. |
| A large portion of the profits from the South's cotton growing went to | northern traders and European cloth manufacturers. |
| Which ofthe following was not characteristic of the few thousand wealthiest southern plantation owners holding a hundred or more slaves? | They did not permit their wives to have any role in managing their slaves and plantations. |
| Most southern slaveowners held | fewer than ten slaves. |
| Even though they owned no slaves, most southern whites strongly supported the slave system because they | felt racially superior to blacks and hoped to be able to buy slaves. |
| The only group of white southerners who hated both slaveowners and blacks were | Appalachian mountain whites. |
| The condition of the 500,000 or so free blacks was | as bad or worse in the North than in the South. |
| One major consequence of the outlawing of the international slave trade by Britain and the United States was | a boom in slave trading inside the United States. |
| Most slaveowners treated their slaves as | economically profitable investments |
| The African American family under slavery was | generally stable and mutually supportive. |
| Most of the early abolitionists were motivated by | religious feeling against the sin of slavery. |
| Frederick Douglass and some other black and white abolitionists sought to end slavery by | promoting antislavery political movements like the Free Soil and Republican parties. |
| The last open debate inside the South regarding proposals to gradually abolish slavery occurred in | the Virginia state legislature in 1830—1831. |
| The northern political leader who successfully defended the Amistad slave rebels and overturned the Gag Resolution in Congress was | congressman and former president John Quincy Adams. |
| By the 1850s, most northerners could be described as | opposed to slavery but also hostile to immediate abolitionists. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin which portrayed separation of slave families by auction |
| Nat Turner | Black preacher whose bloody slave rebellion tightened reigns of slavery in the south |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Racial abolitionist who burned Constitution as "covenant with death and agreement with hell" |
| Sojourner Truth | New York free black woman who fought for emancipation and women's rights. Has library named after her in NY where she lived |
| Frederick Douglass | Escaped slave and great black abolitionist who fought to end slavery through political action |
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