Section 1
Invented the Cotton Gin
Who is Eli Whitney
Field, House, Town
What is types of slaves?
What is cotton
Called "King" in MS
What is Cotton
Slaves were personal property of their owners.
What is Chattel Slavery?
A large agricultural estate
What is plantation
Type of slave that received the most freedom and was given a wage to pay for food and clothes
What is a Town Slave
Year MS seceded
What is 1860
State laws regulating slavery
What are Slave Codes?
The principle that the rights of the individual states should prevail over the rights of the federal government
What are States‘ Rights?
Means prior to the Civil War
What is "antebellum"
Egypt, Greece, and Rome
What are the first countries to have slavery
Biggest debate of slavery
What is the expansion into the western territorie?
MS was the 2nd state to do this
What is Secede
Year the Civil War began
Was a poor white that helped manage the plantation and slaves?
What is an overseer
Ways slaves coped with their lack of freedom
What is family and religion
Number of slaves in the South prior to the Civil War
What is 4 million
Owned 50 or more slaves, farmed at least 500 acres of land, and were Whigs
What are Large Planters?
2nd largest slave market in the U.S.
What is the "Forks of the Road?"
Reasons MS seceded
Slavery and because they believed they had the right to do so.
How did the southerners justify slavery?
By stating they were treating them well, somebody has to do the "dirty work" and believing they were superior to the slaves.
How did Lincoln win the election of 1860 when he wasn't even on the ballot in the South?
The North supported him and that is where the majority of the US population lived.
In 1619, English slave traders brought the first African Americans to this colony
What is the Jamestown colony?
Why did the demand for cotton increase in the 1830's?
The Industrial Revolution led to the creation of machines that could make clothing quicker.