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* 1. Which was NOT a common form of slave resistance?

Violent armed rebellion

Running away

Feigning illness

Breaking tools and slowing the pace of work

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* 2. Which was NOT a condition of slave life?

Hard work, even for women and children

Isolation, control and fear of punishment

Ability to always keep families intact

The ability to hunt, fish and grow gardens to supplement their diets

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* 3. Slave communities created music to:

Entertain enslavers in the “big house”

Pass the time of day

Express dreams and frustrations

Influence popular culture

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* 4. All of the following were true of enslaved women EXCEPT?

Their children were enslaved, even if the father was free and white

They often worked side by side with men, especially on smaller farms

Their children were raised by the plantation owners’ wives

As property, they were seen as breeding stock

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* 5. A minority of southern whites owned slaves, and

Non-slaveholders held most political power

Slavery had little impact on the lives of most whites

The remainder were middle class successful small farmers

This minority exercised tremendous economic and political power

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* 6. Which formally ended slavery in the United States?

The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

The Emancipation Proclamation

The treaty ending the Civil War

The Civil Rights Act of 1968

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* 7. Which was the reason the South seceded from the Union?

To preserve states’ rights

To preserve slavery

To protest taxes on imported goods

To avoid rapid industrialization

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* 8. Ideas of white supremacy that justified slavery included the belief that:

Black people didn’t feel pain

Black people had evolved from white people

Black people were naturally industrious and hard-working

White people were better dancers

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