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Although a new nation was created under the Constitution in 1789, there were already significant differences between the North and the South. Discuss the evolution of the South as a distinctive region economically. What role did slavery play? How did white southerners enforce slavery and argue its positive aspects?

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The typical plantation belt yeoman aspired to

A) overthrow slavery.
B) move up to the planter class.
C) leave the farm and open a shop in town.
D) earn an education.

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Use the following to answer questions : Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Some terms may be used more than once; others may not be used at all. -Laws enacted in southern states in the 1820s and 1830s that required the total submission of slaves. Attacks by antislavery activists and by slaves convinced southern legislators that they had to do everything in their power to strengthen the institution.

Use the following to answer questions : Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Some terms may be used more than once; others may not be used at all. -An African American who was not enslaved. Southern whites worried about the increasing numbers of these individuals. In the 1820s and 1830s, state legislatures stemmed the growth of this population and shrank their liberty.

The economy of the upcountry South depended on

How did slaves manipulate planters' emphasis on paternalism?

Use the following to answer questions : Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Some terms may be used more than once; others may not be used at all. -Interracial sex. Proslavery spokesmen played on the fears of whites when they suggested that giving blacks equal rights would lead to interracial sex. In reality, slavery led to considerable sexual abuse of black women by their white masters.

Use the following to answer questions : Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Some terms may be used more than once; others may not be used at all. -Flatlands that spread from South Carolina to east Texas and were dominated by large plantations.

How did powerful whites defend slavery from attacks by critics?

Use the following to answer questions : Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Some terms may be used more than once; others may not be used at all. -A substantial landowner who tilled his estate with twenty or more slaves. These wealthy landowners dominated the social and political world of the South. Their values and ideology influenced the values of all southern whites.

What did the Whig and Democratic parties have in common?

What was a consequence of the mid-nineteenth-century South's lack of economic diversity?

In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that the major differences between the North and South revolved around

Which of the following was the most common way slaves reacted to their bondage?

How did the democratization of politics in the South change the shape of government?

The goal of most free blacks in the South was to

What happened to slave men when they became elderly?

How did larger planters have the time to concentrate on marketing and finance while still running a profitable plantation?

Most free blacks in the antebellum South

Prior to the Civil War, why did the South remain agriculturally based instead of diversifying its economy?