The Cotton Industry
The machine, and new invention of the 1800s, that was used to mass produce cotton
The Cotton Gin
Slaves were genrally viewed by their masters as:
Property
The term means to get rid of or abolish slavery
Abolition
Slave supervisors were known as:
What natural resource fueled new technology in the South?
Water
This was the most common method in which slaves were sold to other drivers.
Auctions
The organization that was not an actual railroad but was a network of people who arranged transportation and hiding places for fugitives, or escaped slaves
Underground Railroad
Slave stories with morals:
Folktales
Eli Whitney
Butlers, cooks, nurses, blacksmithing, carpentry, field hands
The famous speaker and writer who escaped slavery
Frederick Douglass
Emotional Christian songs that blended African and European music
Spirituals
The area of high cotton production was known as:
Strict laws that were placed on slaves so they would not be able to rebel or act out toward their masters
Slave codes
The most famous conductor of the Underground Railraod that helped more than 300 slaves escaped to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
What were the people who led slaves to the North called?
Conductors
Flatboats and steamboats carried cotton along these two major rivers in the South:
What was the name of the man who led a rebellion of 60 slaves to end slavery
Nat Turner
The first religious group to challenge slavery on religious grounds:
The Quakers
What is the "gag-rule?"
Members of Congress could not speak about antislavery petitions