Which statements describe the Southern economy in the antebellum era? Select three responses. It was primarily agricultural. It relied heavily on slave labor. It produced mostly cotton and tobacco. It favored taxing imports to protect American businesses. It had good transportation systems.

The ideas of hammond are most clearly an example of which of the following mid-19th century developments? (5 points) the increasingly liberal nature of slavery after the south enforced stronger slave codes the growing use by northern antislavery activists of moral arguments the increasing number of freed slaves in southern states as a result of gradual emancipation laws the growing tendency of southern slaveholders to use the paternal ethos to justify slavery