Section 1
Who patented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
What kind of slave was able to eventually buy their freedom?
Town Slaves
Who one the election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
What is a tutor?
A private teacher.
What is a driver?
A slave who had direct control over other slaves working in the fields
What were the three kinds of slave owners?
Large planters, small planter, and farmers.
Who was the most prominent black in Mississippi at the time, and how did he die?
William Johnson, he was killed by his neighbor over an argument about land.
Mississippi was the ____ state to secede.
Second
How many slaves did large planters own?
50 or more slaves
How many slaves did small planter own?
25-50 slaves
What were the main crops of Mississippi before cotton?
Tobacco, indigo, and hemp
What were the two most important aspects of slavery?
Family and religion
What was referred to as the Bible Belt?
The Great Awakening
What did the overseer do?
They enforced the slave codes.
Who were the most powerful political force?
The Farmers
When Walter Burling returnEd from Mexico, what kind of seed did he bring back?
The Mexico-Petit Gulf Seed
Where did slavery first originate?
Greece, Rome, and Egypt
What was William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper called?
The Liberator
Chattel Slavery is a labor system that established, by law and custom, that African American slaves were _____, _____, _____, and _____
Bought, sold, traded, and inherited
Where did the English first bring the slaves?
Jamestown, Virginia
When was the University of Mississippi in Oxford officially opened?
1848
What was the name of the association that helped free black citizens return to Africa, and how many people did they help?
The American Colonization Society, about 571 people.
The flush times were when _______.
Cotton whitened the Earth
True or False: did the Republican Party prohibit slavery westward?
True
What was the first public school that was supported by revenue from sixteenth section lands?
Franklin Academy