Life in the Antebellum South Quiz

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What drove the industrial manufacturing of exported goods in the north?

  • Climate
  • Southern needs
  • Rivers (correct)
  • Cheap slave labor

Which cash crops were almost exclusively exported from the South?

  • Cotton and rice (correct)
  • Indigo and tea
  • Wheat and corn
  • Tobacco and sugar

What was one significant factor that drove the expansion of the old southwest (slavery)?

  • Decline in demand for tobacco
  • Increase in white labor availability
  • Ban on slave labor
  • Rising cotton prices (correct)

What social tier did the wealthy plantation slave owners belong to?

<p>Top social tier (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What role did slavery play in achieving profitable cotton and rice production in the South?

<p>Provided the profit margin required for production (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What has played an enormous role in the ongoing stratification of Southern society?

<p>Segregation of the churches (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which factor is highlighted as controlling economics for a long time in the South?

<p>Wealth (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is cited as an example of how slowly things changed in the South?

<p>Poll tax dictating voting ability (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which demographic has taken generations to shift property ownership according to the text?

<p>White European colonizers (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What still remains non-representative of society in the South according to the text?

<p>Institutions like churches, social clubs, and schools (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the Antebellum Era?

<p>The period before the American Civil War (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which states are commonly recognized as part of the deep South?

<p>Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What characterized the Antebellum Southern economy?

<p>Agricultural cash crop enterprise (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who were part of the social classes in the deep South prior to the Civil War?

<p>Non-slave-owning landowners and slaves (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a modern-day romanticization regarding the Antebellum Era?

<p>Images of wealthy slaveholders' luxurious lifestyles (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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