Hierarchy
What social aspiration motivated the poor, free, landowners in the South.
Becoming prosperous and affluent plantation owners themselves.
How did Southerners use the North's factory workers to rectify their own exploitations.
Slaveholders were good providers of life and medical care unlike the North firing the weak.
What was the status of African-Americans?
They had no voice in court and acted as property.
What was the immediate impact of the Cotton gin to the U.S. economy?
Exports increased rapidly in the next two years (138k->1.6m lbs)
Which was a less dramatic but personal way that slaves would 'rebel'.
Elaborately decrease their work efficiency.
Overseers maximizes efficiency and was paid while drivers were still enslaved but have some level of authority over others.
What normal 19th century 'science-backed' reasoning used to defend slavery.
Africans Americans were biologically worse.
Name one restriction commonly placed on slaves in the South?
What was the primary economic defense that Southern slaveholders would use?
They claimed that slave is the foundation of their plantation industry and its end would create havoc.
How did Nat turner's revolt deviate from most others.
He killed a significant amount of white people (75)
According to the code, what was the 'right' occupation for a gentleman.
Military office, lawyer, and planter.
John Calhoun argued that slavery was correct because of what?
'Improved the black race in every metric'.
What happens when a free black leaves their home state for education?
They're banished from their original state.
Which crop's lack of global demand redirected the South towards cotton?
Tobacco's decline.
What was Denmark Vesey's inspiration for his revolt.
The slave revolts in Haiti.
What was different about the living conditions of domestic and field slaves?
Domestic slaves were often socially separated from field slaves and have better quality of life.
What was the normal behavior for women to strengthen the social order?
What happens when a master slaughters their slave while correcting them?
Nothing, literally Nothing...
What was the AME's primary purpose?
It embraced black leadership and resilience.
Why did many planters in the South choose to direct their kids to military school?
Planters lacked wealth for elite-level universities but appreciated the military training.
Teaching of any blacks free or not, is not allowed.
Why was Eli Whitney unable to become affluent from his inventions.
The machine was replicated before he could be recognized.
How did Henry Box Brown secure his liberty?
He hid in a crate and mailed himself to to Pennsylvania.