True or False? Most Southern white people owned enslaved people.

False. Only a small number of Southern white people were enslavers, but they held the most economic and political power .

Define yeoman farmers .

Yeoman farmers were small-scale Southern landowners who worked their own fields, usually without enslaved labor .

Why did most yeoman farmers support slavery?

Yeoman farmers benefited from the system , since slave-produced cotton underpinned the Southern economy .

When did yeoman farmers question slavery?

They questioned it when planters tried to expand slavery into new territories , reducing land available to non-slaveholders .

How did yeoman farmers gain political influence?

As more white men received voting rights , yeoman farmers became more influential in local and state legislation .

Cotton was called " " because it was the center of the Southern economy.

Cotton was called " King " because it was the center of the Southern economy.

By the 1860s, the South produced about % of the world's cotton supply.

By the 1860s, the South produced about 75 % of the world's cotton supply.

How did the South's dependence on cotton affect Southern elites?

It gave Southern elites significant influence in state and national politics .

Why did Britain's abolition of slavery in 1834 alarm Southern slaveholders?

It raised the possibility that slavery could be abolished worldwide .

How did the Three-Fifths Compromise help the South?

Counting enslaved people as three-fifths of a person gave Southern states more political power and representation in Congress .

How did planters secure the loyalty of poorer white Southerners to slavery?

Planters gave jobs , made loans , and helped yeoman farmers get goods to market .

Define the "positive good" argument.

The "positive good" argument was the pro-slavery claim that slavery benefited both enslaved people and Southern society .

Thomas Dew was a pro-slavery advocate who defended slavery with racist claims that enslaved Africans were inferior to whites.

True or False? Defenders of slavery relied only on moral arguments.

False. They also argued economic necessity , claiming the South's cotton economy could not survive without slavery.

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True or False?
Most Southern white people owned enslaved people.
False.
Only a small number of Southern white people were enslavers, but they held the most economic and political power.
Define yeoman farmers.
Yeoman farmers were small-scale Southern landowners who worked their own fields, usually without enslaved labor.
Why did most yeoman farmers support slavery?
Yeoman farmers benefited from the system, since slave-produced cotton underpinned the Southern economy.
When did yeoman farmers question slavery?
They questioned it when planters tried to expand slavery into new territories, reducing land available to non-slaveholders.
How did yeoman farmers gain political influence?
As more white men received voting rights, yeoman farmers became more influential in local and state legislation.
Cotton was called " " because it was the center of the Southern economy.
Cotton was called "King" because it was the center of the Southern economy.
By the 1860s, the South produced about % of the world's cotton supply.
By the 1860s, the South produced about 75% of the world's cotton supply.
How did the South's dependence on cotton affect Southern elites?
It gave Southern elites significant influence in state and national politics.
Why did Britain's abolition of slavery in 1834 alarm Southern slaveholders?
It raised the possibility that slavery could be abolished worldwide.
How did the Three-Fifths Compromise help the South?
Counting enslaved people as three-fifths of a person gave Southern states more political power and representation in Congress.
How did planters secure the loyalty of poorer white Southerners to slavery?
Planters gave jobs, made loans, and helped yeoman farmers get goods to market.
Define the "positive good" argument.
The "positive good" argument was the pro-slavery claim that slavery benefited both enslaved people and Southern society.
Who was Thomas Dew?
Thomas Dew was a pro-slavery advocate who defended slavery with racist claims that enslaved Africans were inferior to whites.
True or False?
Defenders of slavery relied only on moral arguments.
False.
They also argued economic necessity, claiming the South's cotton economy could not survive without slavery.

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