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</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</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</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Wealth</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</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

    What is the Antebellum Era?

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

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

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

    What characterized the Antebellum Southern economy?

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

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

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

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