i>Clicker Questions Chapter 12: The South Expands: Slavery and Society, 1800–1860 i>Clicker Questions

1. How did the Chesapeake region contribute to the domestic slave trade? a. By encouraging European immigrants to migrate to the Cotton South b. By providing Native American slaves to the Cotton South c. By selling surplus African American slaves to the Cotton South d. By buying slaves from the Cotton South

2. How did the domestic slave trade affect slave marriages? a. By law, married slaves could only be sold together. b. Married slaves were not sold in the domestic slave trade. c. It destroyed about one in every four slave marriages. d. Slaves did not get married, in fear that they would be separated from their spouse.

3. Which statement characterizes the gang-labor system of slave labor in the Lower South? a. Assigning random jobs to slaves and allowing them to work at their own pace b. Large work crews supervised by a black driver and a white overseer c. Close supervision by the planter class of field work d. The avoidance of whipping of black slaves as an incentive to work harder

4. What distinguished the entrepreneurial planters of the Cotton South in the 1840s and 1850s from the upper-class planters of the Old South? a. Greater opulence and elegance b. Heightened religious hypocrisy c. Attitude of aristocratic paternalism d. A plain and simple life

5. What was the dominant pattern of marriage relationships among the smallholding yeomen of the antebellum South? a. Egalitarian based on shared ownership of property b. Matriarchal, as land tended to be in wives' names c. Patriarchal, with husbands dominant d. Shaped by the ideology of companionate marriage

6. Why did the Texas war party succeed with its call for a rebellion in 1835? a. The new Mexican president nullified the Texans' exemption from the ban on slavery. b. General Santa Anna had captured and imprisoned rebel leader Sam Houston. c. Mexico had declared war on the United States. d. The Mexican revolution made life in that nation unbearable.

7. Why did the planter elite of the South face political challenges in the 1840s and 1850s? a. New state constitutions opened the franchise, making it more difficult for them to dominate government. b. Other whites increasingly viewed slave owning as morally reprehensible. c. A new entrepreneurial class emerged to challenge the old elites for power. d. Their reluctance to invest in internal improvements discredited them.

8. In the early 1800s, what did the growing cities of the South all have in common? a. They tended to be around the periphery of the South. b. They tended to be state capitals. c. They tended to be in the region's coolest areas. d. They tended to have large free black populations.

9. Which statement characterizes the religious practices of African American slaves in the Deep South in the early nineteenth century? a. They had adopted Catholicism from Portuguese slave traders. b. The majority of them were Muslims. c. The majority of them worshiped African gods and spirits. d. They had largely converted to the Anglican Church.

10. Why did many African American slaves choose not to run away? a. They were not able to imagine a life of freedom. b. They did not want to leave family and kin. c. They feared that the North would be just as bad as the South. d. They felt affection for their masters.

Answer Key 1. The answer is c. 2. The answer is c. 3. The answer is b. 4. The answer is d. 5. The answer is c. 6. The answer is a. 7. The answer is a. 8. The answer is a. 9. The answer is c. 10. The answer is b.