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Plantation Economy
The South
Women in Antebellum period
Slaves
The North
100
What is the biggest selling crop in 1860?
cotton
100
The plantation system was dependent on the use of what?
Slave Labor
100
What is the idea that women controlled the home and children and men controlled politics and work?
Separate Spheres
100
What is the job of majority of the slaves in the South?
Field Hands
100
What kind of society is the North in the Antebellum period?
Industrial Society/Mixed Economy
200
What is the crop most known for production in South Carolina?
Rice
200
What is the political party that the majority of Southerners belong to?
Democratic Party
200
What is the movement that put a ban on alcohol?
the Temperance Movement
200
What is the act of freeing slaves?
Emancipation
200
The People who argued against slavery are?
Abolishionist
300
What is the percent of export crops produced by plantation slaves in the South?
75%
300
What are the laws enacted in the South to keep control of the slaves?
Slave codes
300
What is the name of the woman who gave the speech called "Ain't I a Woman?"
Sojourner Truth
300
What is the short-term escape of a slave?
Petit Marronage
300
What party did people from the free state mostly support?
The republican Party
400
What is the cotton gin and who created it?
A machine made to take the seeds out of cotton faster than slaves could. Eli Whitney.
400
What is the theory of slavery that emphasized reciprocal duties and obligations between planters and their slaves?
Paternalism
400
The women's rights movement grew out of this other 1800's movement
The Abolishionist Movement
400
The invention that led to the expansion of slavery across the South?
The Cotton Gin
400
People from this region believed that lawmakers from states like Maine and New York could not possibly understand or care about their wants or needs.
The South
500
Land owner with at least 20 slaves and 300 plus acres of land.
Planter
500
What is the name of a person hired by a planter to supervise the labor of the slaves?
Overseer
500
Who is the woman best known for her work in women's suffrage?
Susan B. Anthony
500
What is the name of the slave that led the bloodiest slave uprising in Virginia?
Nat Turner
500
What is the name of the abolishionist who published "The North Star?"
Frederick Douglass