Free blacks in the South...

• lived mostly in the Lower South.
• generally acknowledged unity with the enslaved population.
• won the right to trial by jury in criminal cases.
• were able to travel fairly widely without identification papers.

ANSWER: Free blacks in the South generally acknowledged unity with the enslaved population.

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.