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The primary market for southern cotton production was
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the North
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p. 360
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The invention that transformed the southern cotton economy was
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the Cotton gin
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p. 360
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A large portion of the profits from cotton growing went to
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Northern traders and European manufacturers
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p. 360
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Among the economic consequences of the South's cotton economy was
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A dependence on the North for trade and manufacturing
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p. 361
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Most southern slaveowners held
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Fewer than ten slaves
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p. 364
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Even though they owned no slaves, most southern whites supported the slave system because
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The felt racially superior to blacks and hoped to be able to buy slaves
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p. 366
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The only group of white southerners who strongly opposed slavery and the slaveowners were
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Appalachian mountain whites
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p. 366
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The condition of the 500,000 or so free blacks was
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As bad or worse in the North than in the South
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p. 366
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Most of the growth in the African-American slave populations before 1860 came from
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Natural reproduction
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p. 367
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Most slaveowners treated their slaves as
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Economically profitable investments
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p. 367
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The African-American family under slavery was
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Generally stable and supportive
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p. 369
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Most of the early abolitionist were motivated by
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Religious feeling against the "sin" of slavery
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p. 372
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The most prominent black abolitionist leader was
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William Lloyd Garrison
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p. 372
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After 1830, most southerners came to look on slavery as
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A positive good
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p. 374
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By the 1850s, most northerns could be described as
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Sympathetic to white southern arguements in defense of slavery
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p. 376
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