APUSH 4.12 & 4.13

In the antebellum period, free African Americans were

• given the right of suffrage in most states

• educated in integrated schools in most northern states

• able to accumulate some property in spite of discrimination

• protected from kidnapping under stringent provisions of the Fugitive Slave Act

During the 1800s the most common form of resistance to slavery by slaves themselves was

• working slowly and breaking tools

• escaping to Canada via the Underground Railroad

• organizing petitions and demonstrations against slavery

• rebelling openly, using weapons, and planning confrontations

In the 1850’s, the South differed from the North in that the South had

• more cities

• fewer European immigrants

• less interest in evangelical religion

• a better-developed transportation system

The dramatic increase in the South’s slave labor force between 1810 and 1860 was due to

• an increase in the African slave trade

• the importation of slaves from the West Indies

• an increase in the severity of fugitive slave laws

• the natural population increase of American-born slaves

The majority of White families in the antebellum South owned

• No slaves

• 5 to 10 slaves

• 10 to 50 slaves

• 50 to 100 slaves

Support for slavery in the Southern states was based on all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

• Most White families owned slaves.

• Slavery was condoned in the Bible.

• White plantation owners feared abolition would destroy the South’s economy.

• Slaveholders believed that slaves were inferior and required White guardianship.