💰The Antebellum Economy💰
The only port that had more business then New Orleans. 💰
What is New York?
Eli Whitney.
Who invented the Cotton Gin?
Sugar was grown on _______ because it required so much labor to produce granulated sugar.
What are plantations?
Many slaves lived in small houses close to one another.🏚
What are slave quarters?
President Andrew Jackson's political party.🪶
What are Democrats?
These two trading items were the main source of money for Louisiana. 🦅
What is sugar and cotton?
Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston's invention that arrived to New Orleans in January 1812.🚢
What is the steamboat?
This fiber that grows on plants was more profitable then sugar and cheaper to grow.
What is cotton?
TRUE OR FALSE: Stories of slaves/slavery was written down and documented through the journals of the slaves and slave owners.
What is false?
Better known as the "American Party", whom opposed giving any political power to immigrants and accused the Democrats of exploiting Irish immigrants. 🇮🇪
Who are the Know-Nothings?
Vital to the economies success due to loans/sold bonds. 🏦
What are banks?
In 1831, investors worked to fund the construction of the _____________that connected Lake Pontchartrain and the interior of New Orleans. 🌊
What is the New Basin Canal?
Between 1840 and 1860, the production of cotton ______. 📈
What is doubled?
The amount of slaves used during the "King of Cotton" period ______.
What is increased?
A party that believed in strong federal government and believed in protective tariffs, national banking, and federal aid for internal improvements, or the "American System". 🥳
Planters that were dependent on financial reps.
What are factors?
Most of the progress of canals were destroyed during...
What is the Civil War?
EXTRA: The president during the Antebellum period.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
TRUE OR FALSE: Slaves were rented out for a day to run businesses or for labor. 🧑💼
What is true?
The normal people or "Jackson's" people supported the _____ party, the richer, higher class supported the ______ party, and Catholics and immigrant haters supported the _____ party. 🎉
Who are the Democrat, Whig, and Know-Nothing parties?
👑The Queen of the South.👑
What is the nickname of Louisiana?
In 1831, a six mile track was made between New Orleans and _________________, but there were many glitches.
What is Lake Pontchartrain?
EXTRA: Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor.
What is what started the Civil War?
Freed slaves moved back to Louisiana after a revolt.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the period following a war and especially following the American Civil War. 🪖
What is postbellum?