Chapter 136. Reflections on The Politics of Slavery, Chapter 13

Reflections on The Politics of Slavery, Chapter 13

Use your critical reading skills to answer the following questions about the author’s historical interpretation in the narrative.

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Correct. The answer is c. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that slaveholders maintained control over the democratized political world of the antebellum South, but although they governed primarily to serve their own interests, they persuaded the region’s plain folk that the existing social order benefited all white Southerners.

Incorrect. The answer is c. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that slaveholders maintained control over the democratized political world of the antebellum South, but although they governed primarily to serve their own interests, they persuaded the region’s plain folk that the existing social order benefited all white Southerners.

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Correct. The answer is c. As evidence that the South’s political structure became increasingly democratic during the antebellum years, the author states that, by the 1850s, every state had instituted universal white male suffrage and removed property requirements for state officeholders.

Incorrect. The answer is c. As evidence that the South’s political structure became increasingly democratic during the antebellum years, the author states that, by the 1850s, every state had instituted universal white male suffrage and removed property requirements for state officeholders.

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Correct. The answer is a. To support his point that slaveholders controlled the political world of the antebellum South, he presents evidence that the percentage of slaveholders in the South’s state legislatures in 1860 ranged from 41 percent in Missouri to 86 percent in North Carolina.

Incorrect. The answer is a. To support his point that slaveholders controlled the political world of the antebellum South, he presents evidence that the percentage of slaveholders in the South’s state legislatures in 1860 ranged from 41 percent in Missouri to 86 percent in North Carolina.

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Correct. The answer is d. The author argues that slaveholders maintained their power in southern politics by giving the impression that their policies protected the interests of small farmers.

Incorrect. The answer is d. The author argues that slaveholders maintained their power in southern politics by giving the impression that their policies protected the interests of small farmers.

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Correct. The answer is b. The author asserts that whites’ commitment to black subordination drew them together across class boundaries, convincing even poor whites that they had more in common with planters than with slaves.

Incorrect. The answer is b. The author asserts that whites’ commitment to black subordination drew them together across class boundaries, convincing even poor whites that they had more in common with planters than with slaves.

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