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