Early 1800s in the South

Eli Whitney invented the

Cotton Gin

The cotton gin did all of the following:

Cotton farming moved beyond the coastal states all the way to the west. Cotton plantations began to spread into northern Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi all the way to Texas Cotton exports (products) increased

A minority of Southern whites owned slaves,

and they used their power and influence harshly on the slaves

As a result of Nat Turner's rebellion, all of the following occurred:

Many African Americans were killed in revenge Slaves were not allowed to hold religious services The southern states imposed harsher and stricter laws on African Americans such as

The cotton gin led to all of the following:

Many slaves from the east were sold south and west to new cotton plantations More Native American groups were driven off Southern land as it was taken over for cotton plantations Growing cotton required a large work force, and slavery continued to be important as a source of labor

The only "successful" slave insurrection in the nineteenth-century South was led by

Nat Turner

What is the MAIN impact that the cotton gin had on the south's economy?

It made the cotton cleaning process a lot faster and more efficient

Most white Southerners were ________, owners of small farms, who owned few slaves or none at all.

Yeomen

Slavery in the South encouraged the development of

society dividing into different racial and social classes

True or False. Laws in the 1800 south prevented slave owners from physically punishing their slaves or killing them.

False

What state had a lot of cotton farming?

Georgia

What statement MOST ACCURATELY describes an aspect of industrialization in the South?

Industry remained a small but vital part of the southern economy.

What had the greatest impact on the institution of slavery in the United States in the first quarter of the nineteenth century?

Invention of the cotton gin.

All of the following were impacts of the cotton gin on the South:

It increased the slave labor force on cotton plantations It raised the prices of cotton It increased the Southern economy

Which states used the cotton gin to run their economy?

Southern States such as Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas

Read the excerpt: "King cotton is a profound statesman, and knows what measures will best sustain his throne." —"Cotton is King," David Christy During the mid-1800s, which individuals would most likely have agreed with the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

Southern politicians

What were effects of slavery in the South?

The increase of financial productivity from plantation slavery allowed large plantation owners to expand and buy even more slaves Society having rigid class systems that tied to racial factors Society creating racial divisions

What statement MOST ACCURATELY describes an effect of slavery on the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

The issue of slavery deepened the division between the northern and southern states.

What statement about Southern slavery is true?

The majority of slaveowners were small farmers, but the majority of slaves lived on plantations of medium or large size.

What statement MOST ACCURATELY describes Southern society during the first half of the 1800s?

The planters had a powerful influence over Southern politics.

What statement is true about free African Americans in Southern society during the first half of the nineteenth century?

They faced discrimination from white southerners.

True or False. Slaves constantly rebelled, however it was usually through smaller acts rather than wide scale revolts, because the latter were responded to with violence or death.

True

True or False. The cotton gin allowed production of cotton to be done faster and on a wider scale, increasing the demand for labor, which was met by increasing the slave trade from Africa.

True

True or False. When slaves rebelled, even in small ways, they were met with violence.

True

True or False. Yeoman farmers who couldn't afford their own slaves sometimes would rent one.

True

How did Southern whites respond to slave rebellions?

With violence

What crop was most influential in transforming the southern economy during the antebellum period?

cotton

The expansion of Southern agriculture from 1820 to 1860 was due to the expanded cultivation of

cotton in the "Cotton Belt".

Which factor was MOST responsible for replacing tobacco with cotton in the nineteenth-century South?

ease of process

In general, Southern planters were

genteel aristocrats

The growing importance of cotton to the South created an economy and a society dominated by

large plantation owners.

In the early nineteenth-century South, most yeomen farmers _____.

owned small farms

Prior to the Civil War, which group had the most political power in the South?

plantation owners

Slave resistance in the South often took all of the following forms:

running away. fighting back with guns. work slowdowns. thievery.

In the triangular trade system, most captured West Africans were sold to _____ in order to satisfy a labor demand in the Caribbean.

sugar planters

What agricultural invention, designed to increase production, had the effect of increasing the number of slaves needed for labor in the Deep South?

the cotton gin