Match the Term with the Definition

Match the term with the definition.
-An African American who was not enslaved. Southern whites worried about the increasing numbers of these individuals. In the 1820s and 1830s, state legislatures stemmed the growth of this population and shrank their liberty.

A) chivalry
B) cotton kingdom
C) free black
D) Mason-Dixon line
E) miscegenation
F) paternalism
G) plantation
H) plantation belt
I) planter
J) slave codes
K) upcountry
L) yeomen