Discovering Our Past: The American Journey to World War I

Chapter 9: The South

Self-Check Quiz

1
One reason that industry did not develop in the South was a lack of _______, or money to invest in business.
A)overseer
B)fixed costs
C)capital
D)spiritual
2
Known as __________, the largest group of whites in the South were farmers who did not own slaves.
A)yeomen
B)overseers
C)capitals
D)the rural poor
3
The field hands, or enslaved African Americans who worked planting and picking cotton, were supervised by a(n) _______.
A)yeoman
B)tenant farmer
C)cotton gin
D)overseer
4
Some Southern cities, such as Columbia, South Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia, grew because they were located _______.
A)near waterfalls
B)at the crossroads of railways
C)on the coast
D)near the Northern states
5
An African American religious folk song is known as a(n) _______.
A)spiritual
B)slave code
C)overseer
D)rebellion song
6
By 1860 almost all the enslaved people in the South _______.
A)had been born there
B)had first been free in the North
C)had been slaves on plantations in the Caribbean islands
D)had been brought in through the state of Massachusetts
7
The Upper South included the states of __________.
A)Virginia, North Carolina, and Louisiana
B)North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee
C)Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina
D)North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
8
The cotton gin was invented by __________.
A)Cyrus McCormick
B)Elias Howe
C)John Deere
D)Eli Whitney
9
Slave codes were __________.
A)laws in Southern states to control enslaved people
B)secret communications between enslaved people
C)maps of the Underground Railroad routes
D)religious folk songs with hidden messages
10
__________ escaped slavery and then returned to the South 19 times to lead others to freedom.
A)Sojourner Truth
B)Nat Turner
C)Harriet Tubman
D)Frederick Douglass
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