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He invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This was a large cultural estate associated with wealth in antebellum Mississippi.
What was a plantation?
To withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
What is to secede?
This was the year of the Presidential Election that led to start of the Civil War.
What was the year 1860?
A free black man who was rich and owned slaves and businesses in Natchez.
Who was William Johnson?
This invention increased slavery in Mississippi by decreasing the number of slaves needed to process cotton.
What was the cotton gin?
The first Southern state to secede, and the date of the secession.
What was South Carolina on December 20, 1860?
He was a senator from Mississippi who became the President of The Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
The labor system established by law and custom, in which African-American slaves were considered the personal property of their owners and could be bought, sold, traded, and inherited, was known as this.
What is chattel slavery?
The second Southern state to secede, and the date of the secession.
What was Mississippi on January 9, 1861?
He acquired cotton seeds from Mexico by smuggling them into dolls to plant the cotton in the US.
Who was Walter Burling?
State laws that regulated slavery in antebellum Mississippi were called what.
What were slave codes?
He was a Virginia slave who started a revolt after killing his owner and family.
Who was Nat Turner?
A white man who served as the manager of the plantation's slaves and farming operation.
Who was an overseer?
He was the Presidential candidate that Mississippi supported in the 1860 election?
These were the three types of slaves held in bondage in Mississippi.
What were: field slaves, household slaves, and town slaves?
The name of the abolitionist newspaper started by William Lloyd Garrison.
What was The Liberator?
The theory that all men are endowed by God and nature with the right to: life, liberty, and property.
What is the Theory of Natural Rights?