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.