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Slavery Quiz
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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?
d. 10-16 million
2. Before 1820,
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
4. Slaves and free blacks made
up what proportion of New York City's population in the early
18th century?
d. 15 percent
5. The overwhelming majority of
African slaves were brought to the United States between
c. 1721 and 1780
6. Slavery in the United States
was unique in all but one of the following ways. Select the EXCEPTION.
c. greater access to freedom
(EXCEPTION)
Slaves in the United States had LESS access to freedom than
those elsewhere.
7. The proportion of Southern
white families that owned slaves in 1860 was
b. 25-30 percent
8. In the late antebellum period,
approximately how many free blacks owned slaves?
d. 4,000
9. Approximately how many American
slaveowners had more than 50 slaves in 1860?
a. 10,000
By 1860,
only 2.7% of southern slave holders owned more than 50 slaves
and only 0.1% owned 200 or more. These 2.8% of whites owned
one quarter of all the slaves in the South.
10. When did most of the American
slave population convert to Christianity?
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.
FALSE
2. Most African slaves were acquired
by European raiding parties
FALSE
3. Slave labor was inefficient
and unproductive
FALSE
4. Slavery was incompatible with
urban life and factory technology
FALSE
Part III. Matching
Link the historian with the
attitude
| U.B. Philips
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a. The slave
was the beneficiary of a patriarchal but unprofitable system. |
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| Kenneth Stampp
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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. |
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| Stanley Elkins
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c.The slave
was a psychic casualty of an all-embracing repressive system. |
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| Eugene Genovese |
d. The South
was a precapitalist society in which an aristocratic, antibourgeois
slaveholding class dominated society and emphasized such values
as honor and paternalism. |
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| George Frederickson
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e.Pre-Civil
War white southern society was a "herrenvolk" democracy
united around the idea of white supremacy. |
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| John Blassingame |
f. In music,
dance, song, religion, and folk belief, slaves created a separate,
independent life, which fostered a strong sense of community. |
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| Robert Fogel
and Stanley Engerman |
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. |
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| Eugene Genovese |
h.Slavery was
an economically inefficient institution that impeded the growth
of industry, retarded the growth of cities, and inhibited
technological innovation. |
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| Herbert Gutman |
i. The two-parent
family predominated under slavery; slave fathers carried out
important familial roles; and slave families received support
from extended kin networks. |
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| Lawrence Levine |
j. The slaves
created a genuinely African-American culture in which Christian
and African elements interacted. |
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| Frank Tannenbaum |
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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| Stanley Elkins |
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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| Eric Williams |
m.Racism was
a product of slavery. |
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| Eric Williams |
n.Slavery played
an indispensable role in generating the capital that financed
the industrial revolution in Europe. |
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| Eric Williams |
o.Slavery was
abolished when it no longer paid and capitalism had moved
into a new phase. |
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| Eugene Genovese |
p.Compared to
Brazil and the Caribbean, what stands out in the United States
is the infrequency of slave revolts. |
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