1) Which state had the largest slave population during the period 1820–1860? Page Ref: 138
Chapter 06: Life in the
1) Which state had the largest slave population during the period 1820–1860?
Page Ref: 138
2) What crop did most agricultural slaves tend?
Page Ref: 139
3) Where was tobacco cultivation most important?
Page Ref: 140
4) Where was rice cultivation important?
Page Ref: 141
5) Which crop employed the largest number of slaves on a single plantation?
Page Ref: 141-142
6) Which crop pushed owners to work their slaves under very difficult time and weather conditions?
Page Ref: 142
7) Which slave-dependent crop was by far the most important to the country as a whole?
Page Ref: 142
8) Which new states led the production of cotton, in what was called the “Black Belt”?
Page Ref: 143
9) Which crop replaced tobacco as the main cash crop of and ?
Page Ref: 144
10) What was hemp used for?
Page Ref: 144
11) Why did cotton farmers use so many slaves?
Page Ref: 142
12) Why was it difficult to use advanced technology on cotton crops?
Page Ref: 143-144
13) In the nineteenth century, what percentage of slaves worked primarily as field hands?
Page Ref: 145
14) How was life different for slaves in the city than on the plantation?
Page Ref: 146
15) Which of the following statements is true about punishment for slaves?
Page Ref: 147
16) What city served as a major slave market for slaves moving through the Southwest?
Page Ref: 149
17) As cotton expanded as a cash crop, the slave trade __________.
Page Ref: 148
18) Slaves’ diets in the period between 1820 and 1860 were __________.
Page Ref: 153-154
19) Slave clothing was generally __________.
Page Ref: 155
20) African Americans were generally immune to what health problem that did affect Europeans?
Page Ref: 155
21) What was unique about black slave population of the compared to other slave populations in the ?
Page Ref: 156
22) Which of the following statements best characterizes slave childhood?
Page Ref: 153
23) What was the importance of the folktales whose heroes are animal tricksters?
Page Ref: 156
24) How did white masters apply the teachings of Christianity to their slaves?
Page Ref: 157
25) Which historian argued in the 1910s that slavery was a generally benign institution where slaveholders cared for happy slaves?
Page Ref: 158
