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Slavery and the Old South
Multiple-Choice Quiz

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1 .       The cotton kingdom of the antebellum South was [Hint]



2 .       Nat Turner's revolt [Hint]



3 .       The use of slave labor by the Tredegar Iron Company of Richmond is indicative of the [Hint]



4 .       After 1831, most whites in the South increasingly [Hint]



5 .       The yeoman farmers of the South, who Jefferson had viewed as the backbone of the republic, [Hint]



6 .       The difference between the gang system and the task system for organizing the slaves' work was the [Hint]



7 .       The antebellum southern journal, De Bow's Review, advocated all the following EXCEPT [Hint]



8 .       All of the following are true of the antebellum South EXCEPT [Hint]



9 .       Most antebellum slaves did NOT [Hint]



10 .       It was NOT true of nonslaveholding southerners that they [Hint]



11 .       Southern defenders of slavery pointed out that the Constitution implied the legitimacy of slavery in all the following clauses EXCEPT the [Hint]



12 .       The most traumatic problem for slaves was [Hint]



13 .       Most antebellum free blacks were NOT [Hint]



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