Wednesday 23 January 2013

Chapter 16 Study Questions

1) What happened to slavery as a result of the cotton gin?
2) What were the characteristics of the southern aristocracy?
3) What was the impact of plantation agriculture on the land?
4) What were the weaknesses of the slave plantation system?
5) Why did the slave-less whites support the slave system?
6) What was typical northern attitudes towards free blacks?
7) What happened to the South's economy based on the slavery system?
8) Where were the most slaves concentrated in the South?
9) How did slaves fight the slavery system?
10) What are some examples of slave uprisings in the South?
11) Who were the following people: William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglas?
12) What was the 1st political party who focused on the issue of abolition?

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