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Although New Orleans was the only city of significant size in the South, it did not have a rich immigrant culture

False

Free blacks in the South could testify in court and serve on juries

False

John C. Calhoun`s key contribution to the proslavery argument was the claim that slavery was a necessary evil

False

Most white southerners families owned at least one slave

False

Overall, slaves did not think much about freedom. They were content with their situation as long as their master was kind.

False

Slavery did not affect northern merchants and manufacturers.

False

Although the importation of slaves from Africa was prohibited beginning in 1808, the sale and trade of slaves within the United States flourished in later years

True

By the 1830s, it was illegal to teach a slave to read or write.

True

George Fitzhugh, a Virginia writer, believed slaves in the American South were not only very happy but also, to some degree, the freest people in the world

True

In the southern slave society, white women on plantations were seen as weak and helpless

True

Slaves had a few legal rights, but they were not well enforced.

True

Slaves working in the fields generally viewed the overseer as a cruel and heartless man

True

Unlike in Brazil or the West Indies, there was little room for a mulatto group in the United States

True

By 1860, the economic investment represented by the slave population exceeded the value of the nation's factories, railroads, and banks combined.

true


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