Antebellum

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Which Southern State is not a major part of the cotton belt? Options: Mississippi, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina

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Virginia

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In the Antebellum period, Cotton was 'King' in the plantation economy of the South, making up more than ... of total U.S exports

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50%

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what was the Antebellum South known for?

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Slavery

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What does the term "Antebellum" Mean?

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Pre War South

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when slave boys and girls in the south reached the age of eleven or twelve what happen to them?

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were sent to the fields to learn farm work

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by 1810 free backs in the south were growing more numerous and were?

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becoming a source of worry to white southerners

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nineteenth century planters were able to concentrate on marketing, finance and general plantation affairs because they

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hired overseers

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by 1860, 52 percent of southern slaves worked

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on plantations

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by the early 1850s in response to the political reforms that had swept the nation in the previous half century, every southern state had extended suffrage to

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all adult white males

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In the years after the revolution, slavery was challenged by: the growth of American industry, the new national government, natural rights philosophy and evangelical protestantism, southern intellectuals.

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natural rights philosophy and evangelical protestantism