"Most white northerners at the time [1860] viewed blacks as inferior. . . .Only a few [white northerners] held strong opinions about slavery. . . A vocal minority of northerners were abolitionists . . . Some white northern bankers, mill owners, and merchants earned a lot of money on southern cotton and tobacco or by trading or transporting enslaved people. They were sympathetic to Southern plantation owners and did not want to abolish slavery."

All these thoughts of the south.

Explanation:

In 1860, most northerners did not considered blacks as inferior, they were the southerns who thought that white people are superior than black. Most people of north had a strong opinion to end slavery. A high percentage of northern people were abolitionists. Abolitionists are those people who wanted to end slavery. No, the southern were involved in the transportation of slaves and did not abolish slavery.

the answer is c. many americans held nativist or racist views

first industrial revolution - the first wave of the industrial revolution lasted from the late 1700s to the mid-1800s. it industrialized the manufacture of textiles and began the move of production from homes to factories. steam power and the cotton gin played an important role in this period.