B) False
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A) was a mythical character about whom runaway slaves told many stories.
B) led a slave rebellion in Maryland in 1849 that resulted in two dozen deaths.
C) was born free in New York but was kidnapped and made a slave in Louisiana.
D) cleverly escaped from slavery by pretending to be a sickly male slaveowner.
E) was a fugitive slave who risked her life many times to bring others out of slavery.
G) B) and E)
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A) had the same rights as whites in the North but faced far more restrictions in the South.
B) tended to live in rural areas if they lived in the Lower South.
C) sometimes became wealthy enough to own slaves.
D) made up nearly one-third of the African-American population in the South.
E) could testify in court and vote in most states but needed the local sheriff's approval to carry firearms.
G) B) and E)
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A) Church ministers criticized the activity as a sin.
B) Most slave men were unaware of the exploitation of their wives and relatives.
C) Some wives of plantation owners resented when this happened and then punished slaves.
D) Many of the babies that resulted from the exploitation were sent to Africa.
E) Slaveowners often publicly discussed their exploitations.
G) A) and E)
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A) early New England factory owners.
B) preachers who wove heart-wrenching stories of slave suffering into their sermons.
C) planters who established textile operations on their plantations.
D) master artisans who produced cloth in the South.
E) an influential 1840s novel about slavery.
G) A) and B)
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A) New Orleans
B) Natchez
C) Memphis
D) Dallas
E) Charleston
G) A) and E)
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A) Slave families were in constant danger of being broken apart by the slaveowners through the sale of family members.
B) Slave families mirrored kinship patterns among whites.
C) Slave families were more often headed by men than white families, due to slaveowners' selling family members.
D) The family was not central to slave culture.
E) Slave families were more patriarchal than white families.
G) A) and E)
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B) False
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A) older states like Virginia to the Lower South.
B) Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi to Kentucky, Virginia, and Maryland.
C) the West Indies to the Mississippi River valley.
D) the Lower South to the Upper South.
E) the lower Mississippi River valley to the upper Mississippi River valley.
G) A) and D)
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A) because of their membership in and identification with the planter class.
B) in the 1850s, as members of the small but influential southern Republican Party.
C) as self-proclaimed spokesmen of the common man against the great planters.
D) as proponents of gradual emancipation plans in order to destroy the "slavocracy."
E) after gaining popularity for creating public education systems in their states.
G) None of the above
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B) False
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A) scheduled open debates on the topic of slavery.
B) encouraged membership in abolitionist societies.
C) suppressed the expression of proslavery views.
D) suppressed the expression of antislavery views.
E) promised to abolish slavery within twenty years.
G) B) and D)
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A) sentenced Celia to death because she was property in the eyes of the law, and thus not legally a "woman."
B) found Celia innocent, because she had acted in self-defense.
C) deported Celia to Ohio for her own protection.
D) declared a mistrial, because the jury could not agree on a verdict.
E) refused to hear the case, declaring that Celia was not a citizen.
G) A) and C)
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A) Sea Island
B) Mount Vernon
C) Israel Hill
D) Sherman's Land
E) Promised Land
G) B) and C)
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