Expansion of slavery
Legal limitations on African Americans' civil rights.
What are slave codes?
area where cotton plantations were rare but slavery still existed, along the coast?
What is the Upper (coastal) South?
laws focused on controlling slaves
slave codes
Cotton, Rice, indigo, and Sugar
What are cash crops?
area in the south where the majority of cotton was grown.
deep south
buildings housing machinery and workplaces
What are factories
Mill or factory produced clothing.
What are textiles?
idea of expanding further westward and taking land, god given destiny.
What is manifest destiny
what where white southerners who owned land but not slaves called?
yoeman
starvation in ireland
potato famine
First free African American church
What is AME? (African Methodist Episcopal)
area where the majority of Americas food was produced in the 1800's.
What is the midwest?
The study of change in human populations.
What are demographics?
music genre from freed African Americans in the city of new Orleans
Who is jazz?
Painful genetic disease from exposure to malaria in previous generations.
What is sickle-cell anemia?
Opened politics to the larger population.
What is universal white male suffrage?
ships which cut the time of travel to Europe almost by 2/3rds.
What are clippers
Slaveholders persuaded themselves to believe that Africans were predisposed to slavery and needed protection.
What is the peculiar institution?
Slaves sold from the Upper South (Maryland and Virginia) to the Deep South (Mississippi and Louisiana)
What is the domestic Slave trade
Deny the right to vote.
What is disenfranchisement?