Chapter 11: A Peculiar Institution

What divided slavery and freedom?

The Mason-Dixon line

The Washington Monument

The Harrison Court

Old Faithful

Which of these was a major crop produced by slaves?

Indigo

Rice

Cotton

Sugarcane

Which of these is NOT true about the south?

Slavery prohibited the south's growth.

About 1/3 of the population was slaves.

The south's slavery was a benefit for the north.

The south industrialized because of slavery.

Which of these is NOT a law for slaves? Slaves could not ...

Testify against a white person.

Carry a firearm

Leave the plantation without permission.

Learn how to read and write.

Assemble without a white person present.

Strike out against eachother

What is "silent sabotage"?

Doing poor work and breaking tools

Meddle in the slavemaster's affairs

Mess with the slavemaster's family

Assassinate the overseers

If slaves were to run away, they would

Split up and set up a rondevous

Follow the North Star

Appoint a leader within the group and follow him or her

Come back and attack the plantation

The Underground Railroad was

A loose organization of abolitionists who helped slaves escape.

A railway line underground which miners used.

A militia of white supremacists who would hunt down escaped slaves.

A newspaper editor.

Which was an outcome of Nat Turner's Rebellion?

The south banned slave preachers.

The government deemed Virginia a free state.

Virginia created stricter slave laws.

Slaves related to Nat Turner were executed.

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