Chapter 16 Flashcards
The new regional “division of labor” created by improved transportation meant that
a. the south specialized in cotton, the west in grain and livestock, and the east in manufacturing.
The primary market for Southern cotton production was
d. Britain
Among the economic consequences of the South’s cotton economy was
b. the dependence on the North for trade and manufacturing.
A large portion of the profits from cotton growing went to
a. Northern traders and European manufactures.
Even though they owned no slaves, most Southern whites supported the slave system because
c. they felt racially superior to blacks and hoped to be able to buy slaves.
__Escaped from bondage and lectured widely for abolition. He published the North Star.
Frederick Douglass
The only group of white Southerners who strongly opposed slavery and the slave-owners were
d. Appalachian mountain whites.
__ was a visionary black preacher whose bloody slave rebellion in 1831 tightened the reins of slavery in the South.
b. Nat Turner
Is a term used to describe slavery.
b. Particular institution
