Author Question: Slavery inhibited the economic growth of the South because of the slaveholders' A) low profit ... (Read 74 times)

Diane · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

The yeoman farmers of the South

A) lived in the Appalachian Mountains.
B) were fiercely proud of their independence.
C) owned very few slaves.
D) formed a small portion of the population.

Question 2

Most whites in the antebellum South

A) regarded slaveholding as a path to upward economic mobility.
B) avoided the social stigma of slaveholding.
C) held fewer than 10 slaves by 1860.
D) resented the political influence of white slaveholders.

Question 3

The typical slaveholder owned

A) fewer than 10 slaves.
B) more than 20 slaves.
C) between 10 and 15 slaves.
D) only one or two slaves.

Question 4

Slavery inhibited the economic growth of the South because of the slaveholders'

A) low profit yields.
B) high maintenance costs.
C) undiversified capital investments.
D) unstable cotton prices.