Exam 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

In the 1850s, the southern social theorist George Fitzhugh wrote that women

Tobacco cultivation in the antebellum South

The nuclear family was the dominant kinship model among the slaves of the South.

It was common for slaves to hold an entirely hostile attitude toward their owners.

Slave codes effectively prevented slaves from owning property.

Though the trade and sale of slaves continued to be legal inside the U.S. until the Civil War, the "slave trade," the importation of slaves from Africa or any other foreign locale, was made illegal in

Explain why the southern economy remained largely agricultural during the first half of the nineteenth century.

In 1850, outside of the United States, slavery in the Western Hemisphere also existed in

Approximately one-third of southern whites owned slaves.

By the mid-nineteenth century, slavery in the western world existed only in the American South.

The New Orleans magazine publisher, James B. D. De Bow, championed

Prior to 1860, the center of economic power in the South

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the center of economic power in the South shifted from the upper South to the lower South.

The slave codes of the American South

The name given to the effort by whites and blacks to help runaway slaves escape was the

Sexual relationships between white southern men and female slaves was

Southern white women had less access to education than their northern counterparts.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the "cotton kingdom"