Development of Agrarian Economy
The Cotton Gin was.
What reduced the time it took to separate the cotton seeds from the fiber?
The 4 main groups of people in the Antebellum South?
Who were, The Wealthy, Yeoman farmers, poor whites, and slaves.
What were slave codes
what was outlined the rights of slaves, they used them to limit the rights of slaves.
How did Eli Whitney and the interchangeable parts revolutionize industry?
Eli Whitney made interchangeable parts, allowing quick and mass production of identical parts for low cost.
Trade Union
A group of workers that are usually in a similar trade or profession protecting other workers rights.
Why did cotton become so important to the Southern economy?
What was, in terms of money cotton was one of the biggest producing crops in the south in the 1800s
What does Antebellum mean and why was it associated with the South?
Antebellum means “before the war” when people say antebellum south they mean the southern after war of 1812
How Was life as a slave.
very harsh, worked from sunup to sundown everyday, no pay, brutal punishments,
What is a textile?
fabrics, fibers, yarns, and threads.
new technologies that affected the industrial revolution
Water Power, Steam Power, Telegraph
All cotton producing states, top 3 included
What was, all Southern states produced cotton, the top 3 were Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi?
how slavery divided the country during the early 1800s. Which region believed slavery was crucial, which did not.
What was, south believed slavery was crucial; they needed slaves to do work. North thought it was inhumane and that they shouldn't be treated like dogs.
Different ways Slaves resisted
steal their owners things, sabotage their owners' crops, ran away, and faked illnesses.
Samuel Slater and the Slater System
father of the American factory system superintendent of a cotton mill. His System was whole families working
3 social classes that emerged during this time
The Third class: were the working class, Middle class: like the supervisors but didn’t own it. Upper class: owned the business.
How did Memphis became a center for cotton and slave trade.
What was, the ground was very fertile and flat, The Mississippi River ran right through the area They used it for trade, and transportation
Francis Lowell and the Lowell System
the inventor of the Lowell system, which was a labor production system, ran by young women