Cotton Production
True or False... Cotton made the Old South's economy boom
True
True or False... The North had just as many slaves as the South
False
True or False... The South had a lot of roads, canals, and railroads?
False
The decline of what... led to the increase in cotton production?
Tobacco, wheat, rice
Did slavery unify or divide blacks and whites?
Divide
Why did people migrate to the South?
To farm cotton
By what year was cotton production in full force and bails were at their peak price?
1860
Who was Elizabeth Keckley?
A slave women who bought freedom for her family by sewing and selling her products
What was the women's role in society?
To labor in the fields and be a good hostess and wife/take care of their kids
What was the purpose of the cotton gin?
To remove seeds from cotton
What was the worst consequence for a slave?
The transfer from one part of the South to another
How did black people create their own culture in the South?
They came up with their own language, listened and sang songs, and created their own denomination of Christianity
Cotton took up what fraction of the worlds trade?
2/3
What was the difference between the task and gang system?
The task system gave the slaves one task to finish in the morning, then they were free for the rest of the day.
The Gang system divided them into groups with a leader and they had to work until the leader said stop
Who was the advocate for Southern independence and what did they do?
De Boy, he wrote articles for why they should be independent from the North