Origins of Slavery
Brutal and miserable journey that Africans took on their way to the New World
What was the Middle Passage?
Who are Northern Mills and Great Britain
the South relied heavily on these unpaid laborers to help produce cotton
Who are slaves?
slavery leads to a divide between these two regions that will eventually lead to the Civil War
What is the North and the South?
the majority of American railroads were located in this region
What is the North?
a widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, disease, and ideas began between the two hemispheres.
What was the Columbian Exchange/Triangular Trade?
the fight against slavery led to movements for this, many of these movements occurring in the mid-20th century
What are civil rights?
this invention was significant in growing industry in the South
What is the cotton gin?
a network of people/trails who arranged transportation and hiding places to help enslaved people escape the South and find home in the North
What is the Underground Railroad?
a complete and full end to the practice of slavery
What is abolition?
ships on the Middle Passage often did not have these available to enslaved people
What are restrooms?
the use of slave labor made this region one of the richest in the world
What is the Southern US?
many northern laborers moved to the city to work in these
What are factories?
the social impact of slavery
What is no mixing of groups or later "seperate but equal"?
Series of laws set by southern states to restrict the rights of African Americans who were free or not enslaved
What are Black Codes?
many people died of this on the Middle Passage
What is disease?
the lives for these social classes improved due to slavery
Who are the planter class and yeoman farmers?
the landscape of the south was marked by many of these places, where many slaves often work
What are large plantations?
social class that ranked lower than poor whites and consisted of about 250,000 people living in the South by 1860
Who are free African Americans?
people made up the middle class, owned very few slaves, and worked in the fields with them
Who are yeoman farmers?
these served as slave holding areas and facilitated trade between European and African nations
What are Trading Posts in Africa?
many enslavers believed that this religious document encouraged slavery
What is the Bible?
the production of cotton in the south helped this industry in the north
What is the textile industry/textile production?
Christian songs that blended African and European music; used for coded messages and to help get through the day
What are spirituals?
group that ranked above African American members of society but worked the poorest land and owned no slaves
Who are the poor whites?