Growth of Cotton Industry
What was invented in order to process cotton quicker?
cotton gin
What did slave women typically do?
They took care of the planter's children, cooked, and cleaned.
True or False? Slaves found small ways to resist the slave system. For example, some worked slowly or damaged equipment or crops to protest increased hours on the field.
True.
This was an area of high cotton production throughout the South, from Virginia and North Carolina to as far west as Texas.
Cotton belt
Who led a slave rebellion in 1831?
Nat Turner
True or false? One disadvantage of growing cotton was that it would deplete the soil of nutrients.
True.
What were some of the jobs performed by free African Americans?
- Paid laborers on farms,
-Skilled artisans
What were some ways that slaveholders treated slaves harshly? Name at least 3.
- severe punishments such as beatings, withholding food, threatening family members
- forced to work despite sickness or poor weather
- housed in terrible conditions, such as tiny cabins with leaky roofs and dirt floors
-provided with poor clothing
- lack of medical care
Religion was one way that slaves resisted the power. They often worshipped in secret. They expressed their beliefs using ____.
Spirituals
These were folk songs that mixed African and European music.
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
What led to an increase for the need for slaves in the south?
The invention of the cotton gin
Most slaves practiced ___________. (type of religion)
Christianity
____, or stories with a moral, were part of oral tradition.
Folktales
The act of passing down stories, poems, and songs by word of mouth is ___.
Oral tradition
These individiuals lives on an average of 100 acres of land and owned few or no slaves. They typically worked alongside any slaves they had.
Yeomen
What do we call the individuals who were large-scale farmer who had more than 20 slaves? They build cotton gins that could process cotton faster than hand processing.
Planters
What were the four main groups of Southern society?
Slaves, poor whites, yeomen, and rich planters
_____ (a type of animal) were often used to represent slaves in folktales. Often a _____ would represent the slaveholder. The moral of the folktales was that slaves could survive by outsmarting the slaveholder.
Rabbit - slaves
Bear, fox, or wolf = slaveholder
Who were men that farmers and planters hired to watch over and direct the work of slaves?
Overseers
These individuals lived on small plots of land, hunting, fishing, raising small gardens, or doing odd jobs
poor whites
As a result of the booming cotton industry, the South became a major player in world trader. Who was the South's most valuable trading partner? This led to growth in the textile industry.
Great Britain
Many free African Americans could still not ____, ___, or ____________-.
Vote, travel, or hold certain jobs
What were some of the results or effects of Nat Turner's rebellion? Name at least 3.
- spread fear
- whites killed 100s of African Americans in revenge
- Virginia considered ending slavery
- harsh laws were passed that further limited freedoms
These were men that farmers and planters hired to watch over and direct the work of slaves.
overseers
Joseph R. Anderson became the owner of ____. This was one of the only places in the South that produced cannons, steam engines, and bridge materials.
Tredegar Iron Works.