What prevented white southerners from working to diversify their economy in the nineteenth century? exploit white workers economically.

Why did a labor crisis develop in the Cotton South in the first few decades of the 1800s? Planters heading west needed many new slaves to clear, plant, and harvest the land. The vast majority of southern white families did not own any slaves.

President Van Buren feared that annexation would spark an American civil war over the issue of slavery. What prevented planter elites from exercising complete political dominance over the Cotton South in the 1830s and 1840s? The wealth of the industrializing Northeast was increasing more quickly than that of the South.

Which of these statements most accurately describes the experiences of free blacks in the early nineteenth-century United States? Most held low-wage jobs as farmworkers, day laborers, or laundresses. Why did the United states decline to annex Texas in 1837?

What prevented planter elites from exercising complete political dominance over the Cotton South in the 1830s and 1840s? The wealth of the industrializing Northeast was increasing more quickly than that of the South.

Which of the following was a result of the Turner Rebellion of the 1830s? Tougher slave codes and restrictions were implemented.

Nat Turner destroyed the white Southern myth that slaves were actually happy with their lives or too docile to undertake a violent rebellion. His revolt hardened proslavery attitudes among Southern whites and led to new oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves.

Nathanial “Nat” Turner (1800-1831) was an enslaved man who led a rebellion of enslaved people on August 21, 1831. His action set off a massacre of up to 200 Black people and a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of enslaved people.

The rebels killed between 55 and 65 people, at least 51 of whom were white. The rebellion was put down within a few days, but Turner survived in hiding for more than two months afterwards….Nat Turner’s slave rebellion.

It took a militia force to put down the rebellion, and Turner and 55 other slaves were captured and later executed by the state. Hysteria swept through the region in the aftermath of Nat Turner’s revolt, and as many as 200 slaves were eventually killed by white mobs and militias.

Brutal physical punishment, psychological abuse and endless hours of hard labor without compensation drove many slaves to risk their lives to escape plantation life. The death of a master usually meant that slaves would be sold as part of the estate, and family relationships would be broken.