History 1301 Unit 3 - Chapter 11

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Eli Whitney

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Editor of an influential weekly newspaper that called for the development of industry and shipping in the South.

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Old South

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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What did the young children of plantation slaves do while their parents worked?

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Cotton Gin

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Brer Rabbit stories ...?

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Most likely a self-made man.

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The typical great planter of the pre-Civil War South was ...?

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Children who required constant supervision.

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Most Southern planters considered their slaves to be ...?

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Planters often broke up families and sold family members to distant plantations.

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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.

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The prosperity of the Southern yeoman was limited by the lack of ...?

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Slavery actually reduced their standard of living.

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Hinton R. Helper tried to convince Souther yeoman farmers that ...?

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Did not create uniform prosperity throughout the region.

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The cotton economy of the lower South ...?

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The Mother

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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.

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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.

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What was the Underground Railroad?

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Re-enslaved

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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

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Who was the typical small slaveholder?

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Livestock

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What was the primary source of income for most yeoman farmers?

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As a necessary evil

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How did apologists describe the institution of slavery before the 1830s?

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4,000,000 (4 million)

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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

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The internal slave trade in the United States ran from ...?

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As Field Workers

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The majority of slaves worked ...?

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Nat Turner

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The leader of the 1831 slave uprising in Southampton County, Virginia was ...?

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Short-Staple Cotton

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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.

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Why would most slaves typically prefer living and working on a plantation rather than a small farm?