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What was the impact of the cotton gin on the practice of slavery in the Southern United States?

What was a common economic relationship between poor whites and enslaved labor in the South?

How did the plantation economy affect the development of Southern society?

What accurately describes the restrictions on the movement of enslaved individuals under Southern slave codes?

What best describes the risks faced by enslaved people attempting to flee via the Underground Railroad?

How did the idea of Christian paternalism serve as a justification for maintaining slavery?

What was the impact of the South’s focus on agriculture on its overall economic development?

What themes were commonly emphasized in the spiritual songs of enslaved African Americans?

Why were large-scale slave rebellions relatively rare in the antebellum South?

Out of the vertebrates, which would be considered the most “ancient”?  Oldest vertebrates evolutionarily speaking?