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

To what extent did the "Gag Resolution" passed by the House of Representatives in 1836 symbolize the threat that slavery posed for all Americans, North and South?

As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin  

The voice of white southern abolitionism fell silent at the beginning of the  

The plantation system of the Cotton South before the Civil War  

Most white southerners were  

As a result of white southerners' brutal treatment of their slaves and their fear of potential slave rebellions, the South  

The idea of recolonizing blacks back to Africa was  

It has been argued that both Britain and the North were inextricably tied to the South with "cotton threads." Explain and defend or attack the legitimacy of this assertion.

As their main agricultural crop, southern subsistence farmers raised  

Plantation mistresses  

Assess the validity of the following statement, "White southerners ...liked the black as an individual but despised the race.The white northerner ...often professed to like the race but disliked individual blacks." Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?

William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to  

Northern attitudes toward free blacks before the Civil War have been described as  

European immigration to the South was discouraged most profoundly by  

Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because  

As a substitute for the wage-incentive system, slaveowners most often used the  

To what extent were cotton production and slavery more a burden to the South than a benefit? Use specific political, economic, and social arguments to support your argument.

Why was the proposal for colonizing blacks back to Africa attractive to many whites, even as late as the onset of the Civil War? Why was the proposal for colonizing blacks back to Africa racist and highly discriminatory by many American blacks? Do you agree with this assessment that this proposal was underpinned by racism by whites against blacks?

All of the following were true of slavery in the South except that  

The majority of southern whites owned no slaves because