Expansion of slavery
slavery was outlawed in this part of the country in the early days of the republic?
What are the northern states?
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
famous freed African American who traveled the world talking about the evils of slavery (you covered him in your reading class).
who is Frederick Douglass?
starvation in ireland
potato famine
this cash crop become the central fixture of the southern economy in the 1800's
What is cotton
area where the majority of Americas food was produced in the 1800's.
What is the midwest?
white southerners who valued their independence and typically lived in remote region such as the Appalachian mountains
What are the rural poor
music genre from freed African Americans in the city of new Orleans
Who is jazz?
organizations of workers who collectively bargain together
What are trade unions?
demographic (type) of person working in the early fabric factories.
women
ships which cut the time of travel to Europe almost by 2/3rds.
What are clippers
dominating feature of all top 10 southern cities before the civil war
What is being coastal?
Slaves sold from the Upper South (Maryland and Virginia) to the Deep South (Mississippi and Louisiana)
What is the domestic Slave trade
when workers refuse to work unless they have better conditions
Who is a strike?
invention which allowed the Midwest plains to be farmed effectively AND the invention that made wheat a viable cash crop.
steel tipped plow and mechanical reaper