[html]<img src\="http://media.lanecc.edu/users/escobarj/201ONLINE/Video_Quiz_Images/10%20oldstead.png" /><br>A contemporary observer of the United States in the first half of the 19th Century noted the distinct differences between the free labor system of the North, and the slave labor system of the South.  He considered the northern system to be industrial, meritocratic, and dynamic, while the southern system was hierarchical and mainly static.  Despite these differences, would also interview a slave from Louisiana who, it turns out, profess to have the same hopes and dreams as most Americans of the era.  Who was this person who would later go on to create New York’s Central Park? {*Olmsted*}
 
[html]<img src\="http://media.lanecc.edu/users/escobarj/201ONLINE/Video_Quiz_Images/10%20fitzhugh%20quote.png" /><br><img src\="http://media.lanecc.edu/users/escobarj/201ONLINE/Video_Quiz_Images/10%20dancing%20slaves.png" /><br>Southerners believed that northern workers were simply “slaves without Masters”. This view was strongly held by a southerner named George Fitzhugh, who made a strong condemnation of northern society during the same time that the South practiced the institution of slavery. He believed that “wage labor was far more exploitative than slave labor.”  No person living today should support or try to rationalize the practice of slavery, but as you studied in Chapter 8 of your textbook, including the videos from last week, there may be some element of truth to Fitzhugh’s claims.  For example slave masters clothed, housed, and fed their slaves, while northern factory owners, after paying the workers their low “slave wages”, felt no responsibility to care about the wellbeing and living conditions of their easily replaceable factory workers. {TRUE}

[html]<img src\="http://media.lanecc.edu/users/escobarj/201ONLINE/Video_Quiz_Images/10%20missouri%20comp.png" /><br>Culturally and commercially the North and South shared a great deal. However a series of events would continue to split the nation what would eventually lead to Civil War. What was the first event that occurred in 1819 that Illustrated the incompatibilities of the North and South? Even though politicians would eventually strike a compromise, Founding Father Thomas Jefferson watched the debate and determined that this issue and the institution of slavery would continue to divide the nation. {*Missouri*}

[html]<img src\="http://media.lanecc.edu/users/escobarj/201ONLINE/Video_Quiz_Images/map%20south%20slavery.png" /><br>Prior to the Civil War, the American South, separate from the United States as a whole, was ranked as the fourth largest economy in the world after that of the American Northeast, Great Britain, and Australia. However, the percentage of agricultural workers in the North was decreasing while that percentage was increasing in the South.  The southern economy was growing, but it lagged behind the growth of the industrial Northeast.  The greatest difference, of course, was slavery. {TRUE}

[html]<img src\="http://media.lanecc.edu/users/escobarj/201ONLINE/Video_Quiz_Images/map%20south%20slavery.png" /><br>In the study of America history, simplistic generalizations are often made that do not accurately reflect the truth.  For instance, the North was good and the South was bad, all based on which section practiced the institution of slavery.  However, it is also very important to realize that in the northern states, where slavery had never existed, prejudice and discrimination against blacks was even higher, as noted by the well-known observer of the time Alexis de Tocqueville. Perhaps one of the most surprising statistics to students, is finding out that less than 1% of the Southern population owned more than 50 slaves, and only a minority of Southerners owned any slaves at all. {TRUE}

[html]<img src\="http://media.lanecc.edu/users/escobarj/201ONLINE/Video_Quiz_Images/10%20cotton%20export.png" /><br>On the eve of the Civil War, what crop comprised more than 50% of all American exports?  Your textbook puts this number closer to 67%, but in either case, it constituted the majority of the nation’s exports. {*cotton*}

[html]<img src\="http://media.lanecc.edu/users/escobarj/201ONLINE/Video_Quiz_Images/10%20king%20cotton.png" /><img src\="http://media.lanecc.edu/users/escobarj/201ONLINE/Video_Quiz_Images/10%20chestnut.png" /><br>Southerners believed that cotton was “king” and because of its power that a civil war over slavery would be avoided at all costs. But Professor Masseur makes an interesting connection between the nobility of King Cotton and another monarchical influence held by the patriarchy of southern society. With the male “father” as the undisputed and unchallenged head of the household, the lives of southern ___________, both white and black, was made more difficult. Southern diarist Mary Chestnut, pictured above, reveals a significant problem that existed within this culture based on unquestioned loyalty and power. {*women*}

[html]<img src\="http://media.lanecc.edu/users/escobarj/201ONLINE/Video_Quiz_Images/10%20happy%20slaves.png" /><img src\="http://media.lanecc.edu/users/escobarj/201ONLINE/Video_Quiz_Images/10%20douglass.png" /><img src\="http://media.lanecc.edu/users/escobarj/201ONLINE/Video_Quiz_Images/10%20slave%20family2.png” /><br>Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave himself, used his autobiography to dispel the myth of the happy, docile slave.  He used a story of a slave, who, when asked if his owner treated him well, said "no".  Afterwards, he was sold to another owner in the Deep South, where the practice of slavery was more harsh and less paternalistic.  Through song, ____________, and family, southern blacks resisted the institution of slavery.  Even after the civil war, freed slaves often sought out family members who had been separated by the internal slave trade, being sold from the Upper South to the Deep South. {*religion*}

[html]<img src\="http://media.lanecc.edu/users/escobarj/201ONLINE/Video_Quiz_Images/10%20slave%20reading.png" /><br>Literacy and freedom were linked, and slaves were often kept from learning to read and write.  Frederick Douglass’ own slave master’s wife was chastised for teaching him the alphabet.  Once literate, he believed, it would be much more difficult to remain an uneducated and unenlightened slave.  Southern state governments would make it illegal to teach slaves to read, restrict their free movement from one place to another, and make it more difficult for slave owners to voluntarily and legally free their slaves, which is also known as ___________. {manumission}

[html]<img src\="http://media.lanecc.edu/users/escobarj/201ONLINE/Video_Quiz_Images/10%20nat%20turner.png" /><br>Blacks could resist their enslavement by feigning illness, breaking tools, or doing work slowly or shoddily.  Sometimes, slave resistance reached levels of violent, bloody rebellion.  In 1831, a rebellion occurred in Virginia where sixty whites were killed by a former slave who had been a religious minister.  This event was so destructive and murderous that in its aftermath, southern whites became more nervous and the institution of slavery became even more harsh and regimented than before.  In fact, southerners blamed northern abolitionists from encouraging this type of insurrection.  Conspiracies were circulated by both sides against one another. {TRUE}

[html]<img src\="http://media.lanecc.edu/users/escobarj/201ONLINE/Video_Quiz_Images/10%20va%20legislature%20slavery.png" /><br>In the aftermath of the slave rebellion of 1831, Virginia legislators debated the future of slavey in the state.  Unfortunately, even after Thomas Jefferson Randolf’s appeal to end slavery after a certain date, gradual emancipation of children born into slavery, and compensating these slave owners, all talk of ending the institution failed.  In fact, slave owners in this state and others more strongly supported one another and the continuation of their way of life.  They felt threatened both by slave revolts in the South, and critiques of slavery made by northern ______________. {*abolitionist*}