Slavery Basics
This term describes people who were forced to work without pay and had no freedom.
What is slavery?
This crop was known as "King" because it was so important to the Southern economy.
What is cotton?
This invention made separating cotton fibers from seeds much faster.
What is the cotton gin?
Before African slaves, many Southern plantations used this type of labor.
What is indentured servitude?
This economic benefit motivated many Americans to support slavery.
What is profit?
The first African slaves in the American colonies arrived in this year.
What is 1619?
Plantations used this type of labor to save money.
What is slave labor?
The cotton gin was invented by this person.
Who is Eli Whitney?
Slave labor was considered more “profitable” because it avoided this.
What is wage payment?
Slavery contributed to this major division between the North and South.
What is the Civil War?
This trade route brought African slaves to America.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
The Southern economy relied heavily on this type of farming.
What is plantation farming?
Cotton from the Southern U.S. was primarily exported to this region.
What is Europe?
Slaves were often forced to work under this system of strict oversight.
What is the gang system?
The wealth generated by slavery primarily benefited this class of people.
What are white plantation owners?
Slavery was most common in this region of the United States.
What is the South?
Slavery was less common in this region of the United States.
What is the North?
The rise of cotton led to this nickname for the South.
What is “King Cotton”?
This type of farming was dominant in the South and required large numbers of slaves.
What is plantation agriculture?
Slavery stunted this kind of growth in the South, compared to the North.
What is industrialization?
Slavery in the U.S. ended after this major event.
What is the Civil War?
Slavery helped plantation owners avoid paying these to workers.
What are wages?
The cotton boom led to the expansion of slavery into these newer territories.
What are the Deep South states?
The buying and selling of slaves was part of this broader economic system.
What is the slave trade?
After slavery ended, the South faced this major economic issue.
What is economic collapse or decline?