Review Questions

1. Why did the nineteenth-century southern economy remain primarily agricultural?
2. Why did the ideology of paternalism gain currency among planters in the nineteenth century?
3. What types of resistance did slaves participate in, and why did slave resistance rarely take the form of rebellion?
4. Why did the lives of plantation-belt yeomen and upcountry yeomen diverge?
5. Why did many state legislatures pass laws restricting free blacks’ rights in the 1820s and 1830s?
6. How did planters retain political power in a democratic system?