Exam 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860

Based on "Varying Viewpoints," discuss the various ways in which historians have viewed the relationships between master and slave.Select one of the discussed views of the master-slave relationship that you believe most accurately and comprehensively depicts the dynamics of this relationship.Defend your analysis of the master-slave relationship.

All the following were true of the American economy under Cotton Kingdom except  

After 1830, the abolitionist movement took a new, more energetic tone, encouraged by the  

The most pro-Union of the white southerners were  

Slaves were  

Forced separation of spouses, parents, and children was most common  

Members of the planter aristocracy  

The profitable southern slave system  

In some counties of the deep South, especially along the lower Mississippi River, blacks accounted for more than ____ percent of the population.  

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

In society's basement in the South of 1860, there were nearly ____ million black human chattels.  

After 1830, most people in the North  

Slaves fought the system of slavery by  

Before the Civil War, free blacks  

The South's "positive good" argument for slavery claimed that  

By 1860, the overwhelming majority of all southern whites did not own slaves, but instead  

Some southern slaves gained their freedom as a result of  

Most slaves were raised  

Many abolitionists turned to political action in 1840, when they backed the presidential candidate of the  

All of the following were weaknesses of the slave plantation system except that