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32 Cards in this Set
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What were new englanders building that caused cotton farming to grow?
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Textile mills
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Why were people able to grow cotton so easily in the south?
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Soiland climate was ideal
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What problem did the farmers face with the cotto that they were growing?
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It was slow to clean the seeds out
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The machine could do the work of about how many people?
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50
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If a planter planted cotton year after year what would happen to the land?
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the soil wore out
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after the war of 1812 what did planters do to solve the problem of soil wearing out?
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moved west
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As plantations spread across the south what happened to cotton production?
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it increased rapidly
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about how many bales of cotton were produced in each of the following years?
1790 and 1850 |
1790 - 6,000
1850 2,000,000. |
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As the cotton kingdom spread what also spread at the same time?
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slavery
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The richest people in the south were called?
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cottonacracy
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What was a planter?
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who owned 20 slaves
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How many planters were there living in the south in 1860?
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50,000.
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Since many planters were wealthy and influential they became?
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political leaders
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what did the planters do in order to run the day-by-day affairs on a plantation?
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hired overseers to manage work of the slaves
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Most southern whites were not planter they were?
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small farmers
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How would you describe these plain folk?
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they owed the land they farmed on? They owned 1 or 2 slaves
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who was at the bottom of the social ladder?
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poor whites
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What two kinds of slaves were there?
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enslaved and free
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the enslaved african americans had no____
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rights at all
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free slaves were free but there was ________against them.
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harsh discrimination
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Liz two ways that most of the free African AMericans got their freedom:
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They bought their freedom
they were freed during the american revolution |
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What part of the population was made up of enslaved African Americans?
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1/3
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What did most of these people work as?
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s
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What are some of the skills that African American slaves might have:
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CARPENTER AND LOCKSMITH
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LIST FOUR THINGS THAT AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVES WERE NOT ALLOWED TO DO:
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WERE NOT ALLOWED TO LEARN TO READ OR WRITE
WOULD NOT LEAVE THEIR OWNERS LORDS THEY COULD NOT OWN GUNS THEY COULD NOT LEARN TO READ AND WRITE |
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wHY COULDN'T A SLAVED BRICHAGES AGAINST AN OWNER THAT ABUSED HIM?
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bECAUSE THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO TESTIFY IN COURT
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KwHO MADE UP AN EXTENDED FAMILY?
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GRANDPARENTS, AUNTS, UNCLES AND COUSINS
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THE ONE THING THAT GAVE SLAVES HOP AND FAITH
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FAMILY
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NAME THE MAN THAT PLANNED A REVOLT IN 1833 BUT WAS BETRAYED BECOFR IT BEGAN?
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DENMARK VESEY
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NAME THE PREACHER THAT LED A REVOLT IN WHICH 57 WHITES WERE KILLED?
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NATT TURNER
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WHAT HAPENED TO NAT TURNER?
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HE WAS KILLED
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wHY DID A SLAVE REVOLT HAVE LITTLE CHANCE FOR SUCCESS?
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