question of slavery in all of the following legal measures EXCEPT the: Nonimportation Act of 1807 What single event halted idealistic discussions in the early republic about the eventual end of slavery? The invention of the cotton gin Which of these economic woes was NOT associated with cotton cultivation in the plantation South? A rising number of new immigrants seeking to profit from the land By 1860 nearly three-quarters of all white Southerners: owned no slaves Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the free blacks in antebellum America? They shared the same voting and other rights as white men everywhere The number one form of wealth in the South was: slaves Considered one of the most traumatic aspects of slavery, forced separations of loved ones happened most frequently on: small plantations in the upper South Slaves worked to undermine their masters and regain some margin of autonomy--however small--in all of the following ways EXCEPT: destroying homes and crops What was the result of the slave uprising aboard the Amistad in 1893? Slave rebels ultimately won their freedom in court The earliest anti-slavery efforts focused mainly on: exporting slaves back to Africa How did the two great abolitionists, former slave Frederick Douglass and northern white businessman William Lloyd Garrison, differ in their strategy for ending slavery? Garrison renounced political remedies; Douglass embraced them. Nat Turner's rebellion produced all of the following results EXCEPT that it: breathed new life into the abolitionist movement in the South Which of these was NOT offered as a defense of slavery? that slavery provided blacks with minimal education in reading and writing The main reason that much of the North did NOT initially embrace abolitionism or support it until the 1850's was that: the northern economy was tightly bound to that of the South