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35 Cards in this Set
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Eli Whitney |
Invented cotton gin (1793), making the production of cloth much cheaper, which revolutionized clothing and contributed to the South's dependence on plantation slaves. |
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Nat Turner |
A Black preacher who led a bloody slave revolt in SE Virginia in 1831 that resulted in the deaths of nearly 60 whites, his execution and that of dozens of slaves. |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
An uncompromising abolitionist and social reformer, he launched a radical anti-slavery movement with the publication of "The Liberator," a weekly newspaper, from 1831 to 1865. |
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Denmark Vesey |
A Free black man who was hanged along with dozens of others in 1821 for organizing a slave rebellion aimed at capturing Charleston, South Carolina. |
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J.D.B. De Bow |
Editor of an influential weekly newspaper that called for the development of industry and shipping in the South. |
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Old South |
The slaveholding states between 1830 and 1860, when slave labor and cotton production dominated the economies of the southern states. This period is also known as the "antebellum era." |
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Vesey Conspiracy |
An unsuccessful 1822 plot to burn Charleston, south Carolina, and initiate a general slave revolt, led by a free African American, Denmark Vesey. |
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Underground Railroad |
A network of safe houses organized by abolitionists (usually free blacks) to help slaves escape to the North or Canada. |
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Yeoman Farmers |
Southern small landholders who owned no slaves, and who lived primarily in the foothills of the Appalachian and Ozark mountains. They were self-reliant and grew mixed crops, although they usually did not produce a substantial amount to be sold on the market. |
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American Colonization Society |
Founded in 1817, the society advocated the relocation of free blacks and freed slaves to the African colony of Monrovia, present-day Libera. |
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Cotton Gin |
Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, this device for separating the seeds from the fibers of short-staple cotton enabled a slave to clean fifty times more cotton as by hand, which reduced production costs and gave new life to slavery in the South. |
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They often accompanied their parents and were cared for by older children. |
What did the young children of plantation slaves do while their parents worked? |
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Cotton Gin |
The invention that permitted the great expansion of cotton cultivation was the ...? |
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Large groups of slaves worked from sunrise to sunset under a white overseer. |
Which best describes the "gang" labor that many slaves performed on large plantations? |
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Families stayed intact and both parents typically shared in the child-rearing duties. |
Which identifies an advantage to slaves living on large plantations with stable slave populations? |
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Showed how a defenseless animal could overcome a stronger one through cunning and deceit, a metaphor for survival as a slave. |
The Brer Rabbit stories ...? |
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Most likely a self-made man. |
The typical great planter of the pre-Civil War South was ...? |
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Children who required constant supervision. |
Most Southern planters considered their slaves to be ...? |
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Planters often broke up families and sold family members to distant plantations. |
Which practice provides the best evidence against the idea of benevolent planters who looked after the best welfare of their slaves? |
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Transportation facilities. |
The prosperity of the Southern yeoman was limited by the lack of ...? |
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Slavery actually reduced their standard of living. |
Hinton R. Helper tried to convince Souther yeoman farmers that ...? |
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Did not create uniform prosperity throughout the region. |
The cotton economy of the lower South ...? |
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The Mother |
In African-American families in which the husband and wife were often separated, who was typically considered the head of the family? |
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Having slavery gave poor white farmers a feeling of social superiority over blacks. |
Why did many yeoman farmers feel resentment towards rich planters, yet still support the institution of slavery? |
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An informal network of people that helped fugitive slaves make their way to the North. |
What was the Underground Railroad? |
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Re-enslaved |
If a former slave could not prove he or she had been legally freed, then he/she was likely to be ...? |
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A Farmer |
Who was the typical small slaveholder? |
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Livestock |
What was the primary source of income for most yeoman farmers? |
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As a necessary evil |
How did apologists describe the institution of slavery before the 1830s? |
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4,000,000 (4 million) |
At the time of the Civil War, there were approximately _____ slaves in the South. |
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The upper South to the lower South |
The internal slave trade in the United States ran from ...? |
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As Field Workers |
The majority of slaves worked ...? |
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Nat Turner |
The leader of the 1831 slave uprising in Southampton County, Virginia was ...? |
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Short-Staple Cotton |
The institution of slavery became even more entrenched in the South because of the increasing importance of ...? |
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There were often better living conditions on plantations. |
Why would most slaves typically prefer living and working on a plantation rather than a small farm? |