The South became largely united in its defense of slavery after 1831 because of all of the following

The South became largely united in its defense of slavery after 1831 because of all of the following EXCEPT 

The Denmark Vesey Conspiracy and the idea of northern meddling.

The map of population patterns in the South as of 1850 shows all of the following EXCEPT 

The percentage of free blacks was 3 percent or more except in South Carolina and Georgia.

The profitability of cotton production contributed to all of the following EXCEPT 

The development of a society offering equal economic opportunities to all.

The middle class in the South in the first half of the nineteenth century 

Was viewed as grubby and dependent by the planters.

Enslaved African Americans generally used all of the following to survive or strike back at their masters EXCEPT 

Refusing to learn a special skill that would help the master.

White Southern slave owners tended to accept all of the following propositions EXCEPT 

African American children were, as playmates of white children, simply children.

The profitability of cotton led to all of the following EXCEPT 

The fear that overproduction would reduce the South's influence.

The correct chronological order of the following events is: 

Nat Turner's Revolt, Britain frees slaves in its Empire, Congress passes "gag rule," Hammond's "King Cotton" Speech.

The map showing Southern expansion westward by 1850 shows that 

The Southerners had added six states by 1821 to the Northerners four. 

The map of the distribution of slave labor by product shows that 

More than fifty percent of all slaves worked in cotton.

Under the law, slaves were property and could be treated in all of the following ways EXCEPT 

Killed.

The land booms and rapid movement into the Old Southwest were important for all of the following reasons EXCEPT 

They benefited the whole range of Southern people.

Well-to-do southern whites saw poor southern whites as 

A threat to the concept of white superiority.

The effects of slavery on marriage in the South included all of the following EXCEPT 

It meant the states made slave marriages legal as a control mechanism.

The graph on slaveholding and class structure in the South as of 1830 shows that 

The planters owning fifty or more slaves were 2.5 percent of the whites.

The life of yeoman farmers was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT 

A compulsion to prove one's worth by working for material success.

The graph on slaveholding and class structure in 1830 shows that 

Class was largely unimportant for political decisions because race trumped class.

The measures taken by Southerners after 1831 to control slaves more tightly included all of the following EXCEPT 

Proposing measures to prevent expansion, thereby isolating the South.

The Southerners who argued that slavery was not a necessary evil but a positive good included all of the following EXCEPT

Hinton Helper