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APUSH Chapter 16: The South & the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860 Flashcards

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1029091853With the introduction of the cotton ginslavery was reinvigorated0
1029091854Members of the planter aristocracydominated society and politics in the south1
1029091855True of the American economy under Cotton Kingdoma. South produced more than half of the entire world's supply of cotton b. 75% of Britain's supply of cotton came from the South c. Quick profits from the cotton drew planters to its economic loamy bottomlands of the gulf states d. Cotton accounted for half the value of all American exports after 18402
1029091856Plantation agriculture was largely wasteful becauseits excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled good land3
1029091857Plantation mistressescommanded a sizeable household staff of mostly female slaves4
1029091858Plantation agriculture waseconomically unstable and wasteful5
1029091859The plantation system of the Cotton South wasincreasingly monopolistic6
1029091860The following were weaknesses of the slave plantation systema. It relied on a one-crop economy b. it repelled a large-scale European immigration All EXCEPT that its land continued to remain in the hands of the small farmers7
1029091861German and Irish immigration to the South wasdiscouraged by competition with slave labor8
1029091862All told, only about 1/4 of white southernersowned slaves or belonged to a slaveholding family9
1029091863Said the quote, "I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom."Ralph Waldo Emerson10
1029091864As their main crop, southern subsistence farmers raisedcorn11
1029091865Most white "red-necked" southerners werenon-slave-owning subsistence farmers12
1029091866By the mid-nineteenth century,most slaves lived on large plantations13
1029091867Most slaves in the South were owned byplantation owners14
1029091868The majority of southern whites owned no slaves becausethey could not afford the purchase price15
1029091869The most pro-Union of the white southerners weremountain whites16
1029091870Some southern slaves gained freedom as a result ofpurchasing their way out slavery17
1029091871The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due tonatural reproduction18
1029091872Northern attitudes toward free blacks can best be described asdisliking the individual blacks but liking the race19
1029091873Discrimination was common for free blacks living in theNorth20
1029091874The profitable southern slave system hobbled the economic development ofthe region as a whole21
1029091875Regarding work assignments, slaves weregenerally spared dangerous work22
1029091876Perhaps the slave's greatest psychological horror and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin wasthe enforced separation of slave families23
1029091877By 1860, slaves the "black belt" were located in the Deep South states ofGeorgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama24
1029091878As a substitute for the wage-incentive system, slave owners most often used the whip as amotivator25
1029091879By 1860, life for slaves was most difficult in thenewer states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana26
1029091880Forced separation of spouses, parents, and children was the most common onsmall plantations and in the upper South27
1029091881The following were true of slavery in the Southd. By 1860, most slaves were concentrated in the "black belt" of the Deep South All EXCEPT most slaves were raised in a single unstable parent household28
1029091882Most slave were raised instable two-parent household29
1029091883Slaves fought the system of slavery in the following waysAll EXCEPT by refusing to get an education30
1029091884As a result of white southerners' brutal treatment of their slaves and their fear of potential slave rebellions,the South developed a theory of biological racial superiority31
1029091885In the pre-Civil War South, the most uncommon and least successful form of slave resistance wasarmed insurrection32
1029091886The idea of recolonizing blacks back to Africa was supported by the black leaderMartin Delany33
1029091887Pledged his dedication to the immediate abolition of slavery in the SouthFrederick Douglass34
1029091888Many abolitionists turned to political action in 1840 when they backed the presidential candidate of theLiberty Party35
1029091889The voice of white southern abolitionism silenced at thebeginning of the 1830s36
1029091890In arguing for the continuation of slavery after 1830, southerners placed themselves inopposition to much of he rest of the Western world37
1029091891Those in the North who opposed the abolitionists believed that these opponents of slavery werecreating disorder in America38
1029091892Ulrich B. Phillips made certain claims about slavery that have been challenged in recent yearsa. Slaves were racially inferior b. Planters treated their slaves with kindly paternalism c. Slavery was a dying economic institution d. Slaves were submissive by nature and did not abhor slavery All EXCEPT Slavery was comparable to the Nazi concentration camps39

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