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Slavery Quiz
Part I: Multiple Choice Questions:
1. Approximately how many Africans
were forcibly transported to the New World between the 15th and
the mid-19th centuries?
a. 100,000
b. 1 milllion
c. 5 million
d. 10-16 million
2. Before 1820,
a.European immigrants to the New World outnumbered slave imports
by a 4 to 1 ratio
b. European immigrants and slaves arrived in roughly equal numbers
c. Slave imports outnumbered European immigration by 4 or 5 to
1
3. What proportion of slaves forcibly
transported to the New World were imported into areas that are
now part of the United States?
a. 6 percent
b. 26 percent
c. 50 percent
d. 76 percent
4. Slaves and free blacks made
up what proportion of New York City's population in the early
18th century?
a. 1 percent
b. 5 percent
c. 10 percent
d. 15 percent
5. The overwhelming majority of
African slaves were brought to the United States between
a. 1607 and 1676
b. 1677 and 1720
c. 1721 and 1780
d. after 1780
6. Slavery in the United States
was unique in all but one of the following ways. Select the EXCEPTION.
a. the near balance of the sexes
b. a lower death rate than elsewhere in the Americas
c. greater access to freedom
d.the ability of the slave population to increase its numbers
by natural reproduction
7. The proportion of Southern
white families that owned slaves in 1860 was
a. 10 percent
b. 25-30 percent
c. 50 percent
d. 75 percent
8. In the late antebellum period,
approximately how many free blacks owned slaves?
a. fewer than 100
b. 500
c. 1,000
d. 4,000
9. Approximately how many American
slaveowners had more than 50 slaves in 1860?
a. 10,000
b. 50,000
c. 100,000
d. 250,000
10. When did most of the American
slave population convert to Christianity?
a. during the 17th century
b. during the Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s
c. before and during the American Revolution
d. at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th
Part II. True or False
_____ 1. Slavery has always been
based on race
_____ 2. Most African slaves were acquired by European raiding
parties
_____ 3. Slave labor was inefficient and unproductive
_____ 4. Slavery was incompatible with urban life and factory
technology
Part III. Matching
Link the historian with the
attitude
| 1. Stanley Elkins
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a. The slave
was the beneficiary of a patriarchal but unprofitable system. |
| 2. Eugene Genovese
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b.The slave
was the maltreated victim of a profitable economic system;
slaves resisted masters by working indifferently, breaking
tools, running away, and occasionally rebelling. |
| 3. Herbert Gutman
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c.The slave
was a psychic casualty of an all-embracing repressive system. |
| 4. U.B. Phillips |
d. The South
was a precapitalist society in which an aristocratic, antibourgeois
slaveholding class dominated society and emphasized such values
as honor and paternalism. |
| 5. Frank Tannenbaum
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e.Pre-Civil
War white southern society was a "herrenvolk" democracy
united around the idea of white supremacy. |
| 6. Eric Williams |
f. In music,
dance, song, religion, and folk belief, slaves created a separate,
independent life, which fostered a strong sense of community. |
| 7. Kenneth Stampp |
g.Slave-based
agriculture was efficient and profitable and the slaves benefited
in many ways because considerate treatment of a valuable capital
asset was to the financial advantage of profit-seeking owners. |
| 8. Lawrence
Levine |
h.Slavery was
an economically inefficient institution that impeded the growth
of industry, retarded the growth of cities, and inhibited
technological innovation. |
| 9. George Fredrickson |
i. The two-parent
family predominated under slavery; slave fathers carried out
important familial roles; and slave families received support
from extended kin networks. |
| 10. John Blassingame |
j. The slaves
created a genuinely African-American culture in which Christian
and African elements interacted. |
| 11. Robert Fogel
and Stanley Engerman |
k.Compared to
British Americans, Latin Americans were less tainted by racial
prejudice, were more lenient in their treatment of slaves,
and extended religious and legal protections involving families
and physical cruelty. |
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l. The slave
trade was so disruptive and slavery in the United States was
so severe that it shattered cultural ties with Africa. |
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m.Racism was
a product of slavery. |
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n.Slavery played
an indispensable role in generating the capital that financed
the industrial revolution in Europe. |
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o.Slavery was
abolished when it no longer paid and capitalism had moved
into a new phase. |
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p.Compared to
Brazil and the Caribbean, what stands out in the United States
is the infrequency of slave revolts. |
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