Section 1
Invented the Cotton Gin
Who is Eli Whitney
Field, House, Town
What is types of slaves?
Buckle of the Bible Belt
What is Mississippi?
Cotton covered Mississippi
What are the Flush Times?
Slaves were personal property of their owners.
What is Chattel Slavery?
A large agricultural estate
What is plantation
Most prominent free black man in Mississippi
Who is William Johnson
Influenced how Mississippians saw their world
What are politicians and newspapers?
State laws regulating slavery
What are Slave Codes?
The principle that the rights of the individual states should prevail over the rights of the federal government
What are States‘ Rights?
Came back from Mexico with the Mexican-Petit Gulf seed
Who is Walter Burling
Egypt, Greece, and Rome
What are the first countries to have slavery
Biggest debate of slavery
What is the expansion into the western territorie?
States that seceded before Fort Sumter
What is Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida?
Candidate that Mississippi supported
Who is John C. Breckinridge?
Congress granted a township of land when Mississippi became a state
What is the University of Mississippi
Most remarkable aspects of slavery
What is family and religion
William Lloyd Garrison
What is established an abolitionist newspaper called “The Liberator”?
Owned 50 or more slaves, farmed at least 500 acres of land, and were Whigs
What are Large Planters?
Punishments
What are lashes, withholding of rations, withholding of visiting privileges?
Opened a school for “Children of color”
Who is Thomas Jones?
Assisted free blacks to return to Africa
What is the American Colonization Society
Abraham Lincoln (party)
Stephen Douglas (party)
John Breckinridge (party)
John Bell (party)
What is the Republican Party?
What is a Northern Democrat?
What is a Southern Democrat?
What is the Constitutional Union Party?
In 1619, English slave traders brought the first African Americans to this colony
What is the Jamestown colony?
Ways slaves resisted harsh treatments.
What are running away, setting fires, abusing animals and farm equipment, and killing their owners?