Ecological
This group of people controlled the southern economy.
Who are Planters?
This theory caused Cotton to become the backbone of the entire U.S. economy.
What is the "Cotton is King" theory.
This class of people owned smaller plots of land, often worked them independently, and made up a significant portion of the white population below the wealthy elite.
What are Yeomen Farmers?
This small group struggled with restrictions on their livelihood.
This government abolished slavery in 1807, starting a movement of countries abolishing slavery in Europe.
Who is the British Parliament
This person argued slavery was a positive, civilizing mission.
Who was Thomas Dew
By 1860, the South was producing this percentage of the world's total cotton supply.
What is seventy-five percent.
This system on rice plantations allowed enslaved people to work on their own time after completing assigned tasks, which some used to earn money or their freedom.
What is the Task system?
The intensive cultivation of tobacco and cotton often depleted the soil of nutrients causing this major change.
What is "Westward Expansion"
The social structure in the South created a common bond among all white colonists, regardless of wealth, based on the belief in this.
What is white supremacy?
This Slave Revolt lead to the Supreme court ruling for the slaves and their right to freedom.
What is the Amistad Mutiny?
Freeing slaves from slavery becoming illegal in some states led to this controversial ideal.
What is Manumitting?
While later associated with the 19th century, the invention of this machine significantly increased the efficiency of processing cotton, solidifying the South's reliance on the crop and slave labor.
What is a cotton gin?
This politician popularized the phrase "Cotton is King" and the idea that slaves had to be an inferior race.
Who is James Henry Hammond?