Chapter 13 Summative Quiz

Chapter 13 Summative Quiz

Multiple Choice

Choose the letter of the best answer.

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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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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is B.

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2. How did the institution of slavery affect social relations in the South?

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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is D.

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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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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is C.

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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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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is B.

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5. Why did planters promote Christianity in the slave quarters?

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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is C.

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6. Why were open slave revolts uncommon in the South?

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Incorrect. The answer is A.

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7. How did yeomen in the South's plantation belt feel about wealthy planters?

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Incorrect. The answer is A.

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8. Which statement characterizes how southern plain folk viewed religion?

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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is C.

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9. Most free blacks in the antebellum South

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Incorrect. The answer is D.

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10. Which statement describes the life of free black elites in southern cities?

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C.
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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is A.

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11. By the 1850s, the political system of the white South

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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is A.

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12. Elite southerners maintained their power over the yeoman majority by

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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is B.