Chapter 13 Summative Quiz
Multiple Choice
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1. After 1820, what caused slavery to become more profitable, which in turn increased the South's political power?
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2. How did the institution of slavery affect social relations in the South?
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3. How did larger planters have the time to concentrate on marketing and finance while still running a profitable plantation?
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4. What did plantation owners mean when they described the master-slave relationship in terms of ìpaternalism?î
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5. Why did planters promote Christianity in the slave quarters?
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6. Why were open slave revolts uncommon in the South?
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7. How did yeomen in the South's plantation belt feel about wealthy planters?
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8. Which statement characterizes how southern plain folk viewed religion?
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9. Most free blacks in the antebellum South
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10. Which statement describes the life of free black elites in southern cities?
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11. By the 1850s, the political system of the white South
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12. Elite southerners maintained their power over the yeoman majority by
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