APUSH Ch. 16

the pre-Civil War South, the most uncommon and least successful form of slave resistance was

Armed insurrection

German and Irish immigration to the South was discouraged by

Competition with slave labor

For free blacks living in the North,

Discrimination was common.

Members of the planter aristocracy

Dominated society and politics in the South.

The plantation system of the Cotton South was

Increasingly monopolistic.

19. "It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted... When they remind us of their constitutional nighis acknowledge them...I would give them any legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives which should not, in its stringency, be more likely to carry a. frec man into slavery..." In this passage Abraham Lincoln struggles between

Law and Morality

The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the ninetcenth century was largely due to

Natural reproduction

Most white southerners were

Nonslave-owning subsistence farmers.

In arguing for the continuation of slavery after 1830, southerners

Placed themselves in opposition to much of rest of the Westen world.

Some southern slaves earned their freedom as a result of

Purchasing their way out of slavery

Slaves fought the system of slavery in all of the following ways except by

Refusing to get an education.

Plantation mistresses

commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves.

Among the economic consequences of the South's cotton economy was

dependence on the North for trade and manufacturing

Plantation agriculture

economically unstable and wasteful.

Perhaps the slave's greatest horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was

enforced separation of slave families.

Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because

excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled good land.

Regarding work assignments, slaves were

generally spared dangerous work.

Even though they owned no slaves, most southern whites supported the slave system because

hey felt racially superior to blacks and hoped to be able to buy slaves .

The condition of the 500,000 or so free blacks was

improving bad or worse in the North than in the South.

Most of the early abolitionists were motivated by

religious feeling against the "sin" of slavery

As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin,

stavery was reinvigorated

William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to

the immediate abolition of slavery in the South.