Cause and Effect 1793-1860
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| 630105682 | Whitney's cotton gin and southern frontier expansionism | Turned the South into a booming one-crop economy where "cotton was king" | 0 | |
| 630105683 | Excessive soil cultivation and financial speculation | Created dangerous weaknesses beneath the surface prosperity of the southern cotton economy | 1 | |
| 630105684 | Belief in white superiority and the hope of owning slaves | Kept poor, non slaveholding whites committed to a system that actually harmed them | 2 | |
| 630105685 | The selling of slaves at auctions | Often resulted in the cruel separation of black families | 3 | |
| 630105686 | The slaves' love of freedom and hatred of their condition | Caused slaves to work slowly, steal from their masters, and frequently run away | 4 | |
| 630105687 | The religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening | Stirred a fervent abolitionist commitment to fight the "sin" of slavery | 5 | |
| 630105688 | Politically minded abolitionists like Frederick Douglas | Opposed Garrison and organized the Liberty party and the Free soil party | 6 | |
| 630105689 | Garrison's Liberator and Nat Turner's bloody slave rebellion | Aroused deep fears of rebellion and ended rational discussion of slavery in the South | 7 | |
| 630105690 | White southern defenses of slavery as a "positive good" | Widened the moral and political gap between the white South and the rest of the Western world | 8 | |
| 630105691 | The constant abolitionist agitation in the North | Made abolitionists personally unpopular but convinced many Northerners that slavery was a threat to American freedom | 9 |
