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"Cotton was king in the Old South." Which statement about cotton is true?
B) Cultivation spread steadily westward to new agricultural frontiers.
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Slaveowners made up what proportion of the southern white population?
C) 25 percent
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For the most part, members of the cotton gentry were:
D) self-made men who had succeeded through work and luck.
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In the Old South, plantation mistresses:
D) bore heavy responsibilities and worked hard to meet them.
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Yeoman farmers in the South:
D) suffered from isolation, a limited market, and shortage of money.
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Despite sharp social and economic differences in the Old South, class conflict did not exist because:
D) of a shared racism and fear of African-Americans.
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A striking feature of American slavery was that:
C) the slave population increased despite high infant mortality rates.
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The slave family:
B) usually consisted of the nuclear unit (father, mother, and their children), but often was part of larger kinship networks.
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Slaves' religion:
D) was expressed in secret meetings beyond white supervision.
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Free blacks in the South:
A) lived mostly in the upper South.
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All of the following were elements of the proslavery argument developed in the 1830s EXCEPT:
C) slavery, while wrong, was indispensable for the South's economy.
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Nat Turner:
B) led a slave revolt despite relatively humane treatment by his master.
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