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Who was frontier life most difficult for?
Women
What percent of whites in the South in 1860 were large landowners with dozens of slaves?
Small and large that had one slave was about 11%- most had paid off what their owners had paid for them. The "company store" towns had more in worse condition than the slaves in the south.
What was the most important crop in 1860?
Cotton
How many enslaved people were there in the US in 1860?
About 3.5 million, out of a total population of 30 million. There were another .5 million free blacks. Most slaves were in the south, though there were still a few in some nothern states.
What state in the southern colonies used slaves most?
Several states in 1860 had slave populations number in the hundreds of thousands. The largest slave population was Virginia, with 490,000. This was followed by Georgia with 462,000, Mississippi with 436,000 and Alabama with 435,000.
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