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What did the white southerners fear if slavery ended in the south?
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That they would lose profit from all of the cotton fields
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How did slavery divide the white southerners?
they whent black poeple to work on there farm
Why did southerners fight so hard to keep slavery?
Slavery in the South was it's economic backbone... and while most white people in the South didn't have slaves -- never the less-- most got some type of income from the institution of slavery. It is also important to remember: Slavery was a way of life for the Southern people and people do not normally like change, especially if someone else is trying to force it down their throat.
Wealthy white southerners used religion to justify the institution of slavery by arguing that?
by arguing that some people were created to rule others.
What were five major ways in which white southerners reasserted their control in the south after reconstruction?
Cuz they wanted to
Why did white southerners plan to restore the old south?
They did it by eating ducks so they could leave then alone
What was true about slavery as a labor system?
Slavery involved the ownership and control of individuals as property to provide forced labor for economic gain. It was a deeply exploitative and oppressive labor system that deprived enslaved people of their rights, autonomy, and dignity.
How did slavery unite white southerners?
the love of money
Was favored by white southerners but opposed by northerns?
slavery
What was favored by white southerners but opposed northerners?
slavery
The south looked at slavery as an economic issue. The North viewed slavery as what kind of issue?
The South looked at slavery as an economic issue. The North viewed slavery as a moral issue. In the North, slavery was proving to be unprofitable in the North and was dying out by the end of the American Revolution, but in the South white Southerners were increasingly more defensive of slavery.
The South looked at slavery as an economic issue The North viewed slavery as what kind of issue?
The South looked at slavery as an economic issue. The North viewed slavery as a moral issue. In the North, slavery was proving to be unprofitable in the North and was dying out by the end of the American Revolution, but in the South white Southerners were increasingly more defensive of slavery.
What were most white southerners in the antebellum south?
most white southerners were non-slaveholding family farmers
Why should the white men govern the south after war?
White men governed the South after the Civil war because most Southerners did not like that blacks were free from slavery , therefor they did not want a black to govern one of their states .
How did slavery divide southerners?
It divided the white Southerners into two groups. The group of people who owned slaves, and those who didn't.
How did slavery divide the white southerners?
they whent black poeple to work on there farm
The only group of white southerners who strongly opposed slavery and the slaveowners were?
Appalachian mountain whites
Why in 1860 did white southerners remain committed to the institution of slavery and its expansion?
The plantation needed a source of inexpensive labor.
