Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Planters failed to politically dominate the South because...

  • they lived in a republican society with democratic institutions such as the secret ballot.
  • they did not enfranchise the entire white population of voters. 
  • they did not foster party competition. 
  • they did not create apportionment based on population.
ANSWER: Planters failed to politically dominate the South because they lived in a republican society with democratic institutions such as the secret ballot.
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  1. gonzalo.mSeptember 3, 2011 at 6:46 PM

    yoo, the correct answer for this is A) they lived in a republican society with democratic institutions such as the secret ballot.

    i got this one wrong and the correct answer is A.

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  2. ASeptember 3, 2011 at 10:53 PM

    Pedro's comment was correct. As per Henretta's "America: A Concise History, Volume I: To 1877", 4th ed, page 354:

    "Despite their economic and social prominence, the slave-owning elite could not easily
    control the political life of the Cotton South. Unlike the planter-aristocrats of the eighteenth
    century, they lived in a republican society with representative institutions.
    The Alabama Constitution of 1819 granted suffrage to all white men. It also provided
    for a secret ballot; apportionment based on population; and the election of county
    supervisors, sheriffs, and clerks of court."

    Henretta, James A. and David Brody. America: A Concise History, Volume I: To 1877. 4th ed., Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2010, 364

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