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All told, only about ______ of white southerners owned slaves or belonged to a slave holding family
1/4
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