Which statement best summarizes the effects of slavery on the southern economy?
A) It was a highly efficient mode of production.
B) It helped diversify the southern economy, but was not highly profitable.
C) It released capital for investment that would otherwise have been tied up in wages.
D) It concentrated wealth and power in the hands of the planter class.
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Q2: When cotton farmers were opening up new
Q3: Where was the Black Belt region described
Q4: In which of the following states did
Q5: Which of the following was NOT true
Q6: What was true about slavery as a
Q8: Manufacturing lagged in the South because
A) whites
Q9: Slaveowners made up _ of the southern
Q10: The upper-class plantation mistress
A) accepted a sexual
Q11: In spite of poor diet, lack of
Q12: In the 1830s, reacting to Nat Turner's
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