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| 5046173956 | King Cotton | Expression used by Southern authors and orators before Civil War to indicate economic dominance of Southern cotton industry, and that North needed South's cotton. Coined by James Hammond. | 0 | |
| 5046176242 | Internal Slave Trade | By 1815, the internal slave trade had become a major economic activity in the United States; it lasted until the 1860s. Between 1830 and 1840 nearly 250,000 slaves were taken across state lines. | 1 | |
| 5046182715 | Forced Slave Migration | Looking for new opportunities, thousands of Chesapeake and Carolina planters sold their plantations and moved to the Southwest with their slaves. | 2 | |
| 5046184681 | Coastal Network | A system of slave trade in which slaves are transported through the Atlantic sea ports. | 3 | |
| 5046187012 | Inland trade system | A system of slave trade in which the trade took place through inland commerce using rivers and roads. | 4 | |
| 5046188728 | Chattel principle | In law, they were the movable personal property of hits who owned them. As Lewis Clark, a fugitive from slavery, noted: "Many a time i've had 'em say to me, 'You're my property'." It was also known as the property principle, of the bill of sale principle. As a South Carolina master put it, "The slave's earnings belong to me because I bought him." | 5 | |
| 5046193302 | Benevolent master theory | Committed to welfare of "white, black, family"- paternalist ideal by treating kindly "loyal and worthy" slaves, and "sold south" only "coarse" trouble makers. | 6 | |
| 5046193303 | Gang labor system | Barbados used it. when there is an overseer whose job was to drive slaves to work from sun up to sun down 6-7 days a week. This man had a whip most likely. This form of labor, slaves was worked really high. They had no incentive to work fast. | 7 | |
| 5046198217 | Slave driver | The highest management position to which a slave could aspire was usually that of "driver," placed in charge of a small group of slaves with the duty of getting them to work without creating dissension. | 8 | |
| 5046204030 | Overseer | A worker hired by a planter to watch over and direct the work of slaves. | 9 | |
| 5046205394 | Butternut region | The region where Lincoln's critics usually came from; southern Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio; region where an antislavery war was extremely unpopular. | 10 | |
| 5046205395 | The ring shout | The thousands of African Americans who joined the Methodist Church respected its ban on secular dancing but praised the lord in the African-derived "ring shout". | 11 | |
| 5046204031 | Labor by task | The task system was one of the two plantation slave labor systems. Under the task system, slaves were assigned several specific tasks within a day. When those tasks were finished, slaves could have time to themselves. | 12 |
