When a man died, his property was equally divided between his children and his wife. True * False Industrialization, while very constraining, was still freer than slavery. * True False Women led some of the first strikes in American labor history. * True False By 1860, nearly 50% of the American population was urban. True * False Many of the tribes that moved to Indian territory were forced off their land and lost their property and their autonomy. * True False The Mexican government outlawed slavery in 1865, as a response to the American decision to do so. True * False The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo granted Texas its independence. True * False The problem of race in the United States is evident in that although the free-soil and pro-slavery supporters were on opposite sides of the ideological spectrum, both groups were also anti-Black. * True False According to the assigned documents in Chapter 11, The South and Slavery, the slave experience consisted of an entire spectrum of experience, from depictions of a more benevolent and humane culture to one of brutality and wickedness. * True False After 1808, when the importation of slaves became illegal, the number of Blacks in the United States steadily declined. True * False Much of the new pre-Civil War immigration went into the growing cities of the northeastern part of the U.S. * True False By the time of the Civil War, an overwhelming majority of all white southerners owned no slaves at all. * True False The American Colonization Society called for the gradual freeing of slaves and for monetary compensation to their former owners. * True False Some historical evidence suggests that the material condition of slaves was quite a bit better than was the case for European peasants and industrial workers in the North. * True False Even in the North, abolitionists were a small, dissenting minority of the total population. * True False According to the video and your instructor, the Dred Scott Decision of 1857 was the worst case of extreme prejudice in a court decision and the best case of judicial restraint in all of U.S. history. True * False