Which of the Following Was NOT True of the South

question 59

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT true of the South and slavery in nineteenth-century America?

• A) The Old South had developed into the largest and most powerful slave society the modern world has known.
• B) The rate of natural increase in the slave population had more than made up for the ban on the international slave trade that was enacted in 1808.
• C) In the South as a whole, slaves made up only 10 percent of the population.
• D) The amount of money invested in or represented by slavery in the United States exceeded that of the nation's factories, banks, and railroads combined.
• E) The Industrial Revolution promoted slavery because it required intensive production of cotton.

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Definitions:

Allele

A variant of a gene that results from mutation, with two or more such variants occupying the identical location on a chromosome.

Dominant

Referring to a trait, gene, or character that is more likely to express itself in the phenotype over another (recessive) form.

Recessive

Describes a gene that is expressed in offspring only when it is inherited from both parents, as opposed to a dominant gene.

Epigenetics

The study of heritable changes in gene expression that occur without changes to the DNA sequence itself.