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lived on vast estates, growing cash crops and owning many slaves
planters
independent, small-to-medium-scale landowners in America and England who cultivated their own land, primarily relying on family labor rather than enslaved people or serfs
yeoman (yo-mun) farmers
one role of a planter's wife on a plantation?
raising her children and supervising household slaves
Why was there always a need for more land when it came to growing cotton?
Cotton soaked up the land's nutrients
Name the example from the blooket of free African Americans facing discrimination in the South
Not being able to represent themselves in business transactions
Laws that limited the freedoms of slaves and free African Americans were passed in response to what event?
Nat Turner’s rebellion
What was most commonly and most severely a threat to the family life stability of a slave?
a family member being sold
Put the four events below into chronological order from first to last (just list the letters)
A. The cotton gin is invented and makes processing short-staple cotton easy and efficient
B. The demand for slaves increases due to increased cotton growing
C. Cotton growing becomes very profitable throughout the South
D. Short-staple cotton is common throughout the South, but processing it is difficult and time-consuming
D, A, C, B
Name at least 2 ways that slaves resisted the slave system?
Worked slowly
Damaged equipment or crops
Ran away for a few days
Tried to escape to the North
Started a slave rebellion
What were three kinds of jobs slaves performed on plantations?
Cooking, Cleaning, Childcare, Planting, harvesting, and processing crops, Repaired buildings and fences, clearing land