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All told, only about ______ of white southerners owned slaves or belonged to a slave holding family

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which one of the following has least in common with the other four? Nat Turner David Walker John C. Calhoun Denmark Vesey

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In 1839, enslaved Africans rose up aboard the Spanish slave ship

Amistad

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written in 1852 by

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Proslavery whites defended the institution of slavery in all of the following ways except

They claimed that slaves were set free after they reached old age

European immigration to the South was discouraged by

competition with slave labor

as 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 superiority

Members of the planter aristocracy

dominated society and politics in the south

All of the following were characteristics of slaves in the mid-19th century U.S. except

floggings were very uncommon and rare

the most pro-union of the white southerners were

mountain whites

By 1860, life for slaves was most difficult in the

newer states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana

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

refusing to get an education

As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin,

slavery was reinvigorated

Most white southerners were

subsistence farmers

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

the enforced separation of slave families