Ecological
These people were called into plantations to deal with conflicts between slaves.
What are preachers?
This theory caused Cotton to become the backbone of the entire U.S. economy.
What is the "Cotton is King" theory.
The most populous group of people in the Southern Colonies?
Who are the enslaved people?
this durable new implement replaced the heavy, traditional wooden design, allowing farmers to break up soil more efficiently with fewer draft animals.
What is an Iron Plows?
This president was considered a 'crusader against slavery'?
Who was President John Quincy Adams?
This group of people controlled the southern economy.
Who are Planters/Plantation owners?
This class of people owned smaller plots of land, often worked them independently, and made up a significant portion of the white population below the wealthy elite.
What are Yeomen Farmers?
This small group struggled with restrictions on their livelihood.
this mechanical device ended the wasteful practice of "broadcasting" seeds by hand, instead planting them in uniform rows at a proper depth to significantly increase crop yields.
What is a Seed drills?
This government abolished slavery in 1807, starting a movement of countries abolishing slavery in Europe.
Who is the British Parliament
This person argued slavery was a positive, civilizing mission.
Who was Thomas Dew
By 1860, the South made cotton this percentage of U.S. economic exports.
What is 2/3rds or 66%?
This system on rice plantations allowed enslaved people to work on their own time after completing assigned tasks, which some used to earn money or their freedom.
What is the Task system?
One negative effect of the cotton gin on the South was that it dramatically increased the demand for this institution.
What is Slave Labor?
After rebellions like Nat Turner's, this type of church was mandated to have a white clergyman present during services as a measure of control and surveillance in the South.
What is a Black Church?
This agricultural practice, largely ignored by slave-based plantations, could have helped preserve soil fertility and prevent widespread erosion?
What is Crop-Rotation or Polyculture?
The intensive cultivation of tobacco and cotton often depleted the soil of nutrients causing this major change.
What is "Westward Expansion"
Both of these groups had little to no control over their property, earnings, or legal rights, and their lives were heavily influenced by others around them?
Who are White and Enslaved women?
While later associated with the 19th century, the invention of this machine significantly increased the efficiency of processing cotton, solidifying the South's reliance on the crop and slave labor.
What is a cotton gin?
This Slave Revolt lead to the Supreme court ruling for the slaves and their right to freedom.
What is the Amistad Mutiny?
Freeing slaves from slavery became illegal in some states leading to this controversial ideal.
What is Manumitting?
This non-violent, everyday form of slave resistance, including feigning illness, breaking tools, or working slowly, was an economic weapon used to disrupt production and reduce the profits of Southern planters.
What is passive resistance?
The social structure in the South created a common bond among all white colonists, regardless of wealth, based on the belief in this.
What is white supremacy?
The reliance on a massive enslaved labor force for large-scale agriculture ultimately hindered the development of these two features of a diversified economy in the South.
What are cities and industry (or urbanization and industrialization)?
This politician popularized the phrase "Cotton is King" and the idea that slaves had to be an inferior race.
Who is James Henry Hammond?