Vocab Words
The 19th century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the United States throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A machine created by Eli Whitney that quickly and easily separates cotton fiber from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.
What is the Cotton Gin?
Slaves mostly did this kind or work.
What is field work? (picking cotton, harvesting sugarcane, or plowing the land are also acceptable answers)
This was dumped anywhere and everywhere in overcrowded cities during the Antebellum Period, which often led to the spread of disease.
What is sewage?
These are some of the wild animals discussed in class that threatened everyday existence for the people of Antebellum Louisiana.
What are bears and alligators?
The arrival of a large amount of something, such as people or money.
What is influx?
This new method of transportation first came to Louisiana in 1830, when a six mile railroad was built between the Mississippi riverfront and Lake Ponchitrain.
What are trains?
Most of what we know about the lives of slaves during the Antebellum Period was passed down through these methods.
Fear of this led slave owners to be very harsh towards their slaves.
What is rebellion?
This term is defined as a disease or illness that spreads very quickly and affects a large number of people.
What is epidemic?
Occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War.
What is Antebellum?
This new method of transportation offered the first significant change. Their giant paddles allowed larger boats to propel easily through the ocean from New Orleans to New York or even upriver to the Great Lakes.
What are steamboats?
Slaves who disobeyed their masters faced severe punishments, including...
What is whipping, maiming, or imprisonment?
White owners used the theory developed by this scientist as a justification for enslaving an entire race of people.
Who was Charles Darwin?
This symbol was marked on a house to signify that someone within had fallen sick.
What is "X"?
An intense focus on local or regional issues or needs.
What is sectionalism?
This method of binding people was used when transporting slaves to and from the New Orleans slave market.
What are shackles?
This was a method of dividing the work among slaves that gave a group of 10 slaves a major task.
What is gang labor?
These were some of the ways that slaves rebelled covertly against their masters.
What are burning dinner, damaging tools, and taking longer to complete tasks?
The epidemic from this disease started in 1853 and was spread through mosquito bites.
What is Yellow Fever?
Acadian owned cattle ranch.
What is a Vacherie?
By the 1840s, Norbert Rillieux had improved Jean de Bore's system of _______ by increasing production dramatically and cutting processing time in half.
What is refining sugar?
This was the average price range for slaves sold at the New Orleans slave market.
What is $200-$1500?
This is the percentage of Southern planters who owned more than 50 slaves.
What is 1%
Cholera, which was a massive problem in Antebellum Louisiana, was spread through...
What is diseased water?