Review Questions

1. Question

   Why did the nineteenth-century southern economy remain primarily agricultural? (“The Growing Distinctiveness of the South”)

2. Question

   Why did the ideology of paternalism gain currency among planters in the nineteenth century? (“Masters and Mistresses in the Big House”)

3. Question

   What types of resistance did slaves participate in, and why did slave resistance rarely take the form of rebellion? (“Slaves in the Quarter”)

4. Question

   Why did the lives of plantation-belt yeomen and upcountry yeomen diverge? (“The Plain Folk”)

5. Question

   Why did many state legislatures pass laws restricting free blacks’ rights in the 1820s and 1830s? (“Black and Free: On the Middle Ground”)

6. Question

   How did planters retain political power in a democratic system? (“The Politics of Slavery”)