Motivations
This was the most abundantly grown crop in the South.
What is cotton?
This machine, created by Eli Whitney, allowed the settlers to speed up the progress of their economic gain dramatically.
What is the Cotton Gin?
This was the biggest city in the South at the time.
What is New Orleans?
This system set up the ideas and morals of the settlers.
What is religion?
Southern farmers used this term to refer to their prime crops' success.
What is King Cotton?
The proportion of whites that didn't own slaves.
What is 3/4?
This was the idea that argued that slavery was a good thing due to the economic boost it gave.
What is Positive Good?
A euphemism that slave owners used to refer to slavery as a whole.
What is a peculiar institution?
This percentage of the population in the deep south was African American slaves.
What is 75%?