Grade: 8th / Subject: History / Unit: Crash Course Video On The South & Slavery

_____ ___________'s rebellion stroke terror into the hearts of whites all across the American South, as a result Virginia and other Southern states made slavery worse by making harsher laws. (Ex: preventing preaches and learning to read)

Nat Turner

_____________ farmers lived self-sufficiently, worked the poorest land and could rarely afford to buy slaves

Yeomen

Profitability of King Cotton in the South meant that the South would remain largely ______________________ and rural

agricultural

_______________ passages were how politicians like John C. Calhoun justified the insane use of slavery and outright racism

biblical

"In order for slavery to function, slaves had to be _______________________. This enabled slave holders to rationalize what they were doing and it was hoped to reduce slaves to animal properties."

dehumanized

Slaves were owned and treated as ________________

property

Although most slaves were forbidden to learn to _______ and write, many did anyways, and some became preachers.

read

How much of the world's cotton came from the American South?

3/4ths

By 1860, there were over __________________ slaves in the South, making them 1/3 of the population

4 million

What was Thomas Jefferson referring to in a famous quote?: "As it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him nor let him go. Justice is in one scale and self-preservation in the other."

The institution of slavery

Slaves reaffirmed their humanity through family and through _______

faith

Slaves' resistance to dehumanization took many forms, but the primary way was by forming ______________. It was a refuge for slaves and a source of dignity that masters recognized and tried to stifle.

families

There was very little ____________ in the South, producing only 10% of the nation's manufactured goods.

industry