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| 7956366218 | Lower South | South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas grew increasingly dependent upon labor-intensive cotton production and slave labor opposed to the immediate abolition of slavery concerned about the possibility of an organized slave revolt | 0 | |
| 7956671532 | Middle South | Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas diversified agricultural economies and included large areas without slavery opposed to the immediate abolition of slavery | 1 | |
| 7956775216 | Upper South | Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri slavery began to decline by 1860 opposed to the immediate abolition of slavery | 2 | |
| 7965926010 | paternalism | a practice in the Upper South that incorporated slaves into the home some prohibited importation of more slaves some freed their slaves after they died | 3 | |
| 8016169452 | colonization | effort by the Upper South to transport slaves and free blacks to colonies in Africa | 4 | |
| 8016185858 | French-controlled Haiti | organized slave revolt occurred here | 5 | |
| 8016202416 | Baptist and Methodist | most popular religions in the South originally opposed slavery and welcomed blacks into the church allowed women to have religious roles switched from attacking slavery to defending it divine right sanctioned by the Bible | 6 | |
| 8016240783 | indigo | cash crop that died out when the demand was lost | 7 | |
| 8016243880 | rice | cash crop that required lots of special equipment and machinery left to the few farms that could afford it | 8 | |
| 8016740560 | sugar | cash crop that required a special machine to grind it left to farmers that could afford it required a tariff to support it so their was an anomaly in southern politics where sugar producers wanted a tariff | 9 | |
| 8016768253 | cotton | cash crop that outproduced every other crop in the South combined could be cultivated on small farms unlike other cash crops exhausted the soil | 10 | |
| 8016925672 | Old Southwest | Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas frontier areas of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Florida aggressive cultivation of farmlands here is one of the main reasons that cotton became so big very suitable for cotton | 11 | |
| 8016978366 | coffles | chained groups or slaves transported from plantations and slave markets farther west | 12 | |
| 8016994193 | black belt | fertile Alabama-Mississippi soil so called for the color of the soil part of the cotton belt | 13 | |
| 8017001553 | cotton belt | stretched from eastern North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia through the fertile Alabama-Mississippi black belt, Louisiana, on to Texas, and up the Mississippi River valley as far as southern Illinois | 14 | |
| 8017019793 | Robert Hayne | Senator in SC lamented that all of the "fields [were] abandoned; and hospitable mansions of our fathers deserted" | 15 | |
| 8017181556 | Tredegar Iron Works | factory in Richmond, VA by 1873 it had 1,200 workers | 16 | |
| 8017212526 | Karl Marx | co-author of The Communist Manifesto noted in 1846, "Without cotton you have no modern industry . . . without slavery, you have no cotton" economist | 17 | |
| 8017239947 | James Hammond | SC Senator gave a famous speech to the Senate in 1858 "You dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares make war upon it. Cotton is King" | 18 | |
| 8017262938 | planter | someone who owns at least twenty slaves one out of thirty whites in the South in 1860 very influential socially and politically | 19 | |
| 8017288342 | Mary Chestnut | her diary describing the Civil War was republished in 1981 and won the Pulitzer Prize complained that "there is no slave like a wife" | 20 | |
| 8017389931 | driver | the highest position a slave could get to was in charge of a gang of slaves | 21 | |
| 8017389932 | gang | a group of slaves | 22 | |
| 8017407390 | yeomen | most numerous white southerners small farmers lived in simple two-room cabins traded with neighbors more than they bought from stores owned a handful of slaves, but most had none dominated the social structure in back country regions of the South | 23 | |
| 8017439226 | Andrew Jackson's Democratic Party | most Southerners identified with this political party | 24 | |
| 8017458677 | poor whites | hard to distinguish between these and yeomen degraded class of rural poor people who owned no land or were relegated to the least desirable land often had seasonal employment as laborers on yeoman farms given over to hunting and fishing, to hound dogs and moonshine whiskey | 25 | |
| 8017479513 | lazy diseases | hookworm, malaria, and pellagra produced an lethargy | 26 | |
| 8017487719 | hookworm | lazy disease parasite | 27 | |
| 8017489204 | malaria | lazy disease mosquitoes | 28 | |
| 8017489205 | pellagra | lazy disease lack of niacin | 29 | |
| 8019114875 | gentlemen | men were obsessed with being this gambling masculine image was more important than anything "protecting women's purity" | 30 | |
| 8019125775 | dueling | outlawed in the North rarely enforced | 31 | |
| 8022608814 | Yarrow Mamout | an African Muslim slave purchased his freedom acquired property settled in Georgetown | 32 | |
| 8022635873 | manumitted | when slave owners freed their slaves | 33 | |
| 8022648596 | mulattoes | people of mixed racial ancestry | 34 | |
| 8022659627 | colored society | mulattoes a society in between white and black | 35 | |
| 8022665876 | Jehu Jones | mulatto proprietor of one of Charleston's best hotels | 36 | |
| 8022675086 | Cyprien Ricard | mulatto paid $250,000 for an estate that had ninety-one slaves | 37 | |
| 8022687414 | William Johnson | son of a white father and a mulatto mother, operated three barbershops owned 1,500 acres of land held several slaves. Natchez, Mississippi | 38 | |
| 8022703363 | black slaveholders | 2% of the total free black population most often bought their families so that they could free them | 39 | |
| 8022724540 | William Johnson | SC planter explained in 1815 that the "interest of the owner is to obtain from his slaves labor and increase | 40 | |
| 8022744946 | slave jails | built to house the shackled men, women, and children who were waiting to be sold to the highest bidder | 41 | |
| 8022757952 | Louisiana and Alabama | Only states to forbid separating a child younger than ten from his or her mother 1852 | 42 | |
| 8022788978 | peculiar institution | another term for slavery | 43 | |
| 8022805231 | Jack | daguerreotype of a man identified only as this a driver from Guinea on the plantation of B. F. Taylor of Columbia, SC 1850 |  | 44 |
| 8022819830 | Joseph Zealy | a photographer who took the daguerreotype of Jack photographed other slaves as well | 45 | |
| 8022855496 | hired out | slave owners would have their slaves sell goods in a city requiring that the owner got a percentage of the profits | 46 | |
| 8022879445 | sex-segregated gangs | separating the sexes allowed women to form very close bonds with each other | 47 | |
| 8022933986 | Celia | enslaved teen fourteen when she was purchased in 1850 raped many times by Robert Newsom had two children under him fell in love with a slave named George killed Newsom hanged | 48 | |
| 8022939581 | Robert Newsom | a prosperous, respected Missouri farmer told his daughters that he had bought Celia to work as their domestic servant bought her in 1850 after his wife died raped Celia many times | 49 | |
| 8023064443 | spirituals | encoded slave songs to share their frustrations with being enslaved | 50 | |
| 8023085906 | brush arbors | crude outdoor shelters used for religious gatherings made of saplings, branches, and brush so as to provide shelter from the sun and rain slaves and free African Americans | 51 | |
| 8023101776 | Creator/Supreme God | most Africans brought the belief of this with them to the Americas they could recognize in the Christian Jehovah reconciled their African beliefs with Christianity | 52 | |
| 8023260211 | Frederick Douglass | former slave stressed that "slaves sing most when they are most unhappy" and that spirituals offered them deliverance from their worldly woes | 53 | |
| 8023444555 | Lilburn and Isham Lewis | Thomas Jefferson's nephews tied a teenage slave named George to the floor of their Kentucky cabin and killed him with an axe in front of other slaves handed the axe to a slave and forced him to dismember the body the brothers murdered him because he had spoken out against slavery wanted "to set an example for any other uppity slaves" | 54 | |
| 8023834475 | Gabriel's slave rebellion | 1800 a slave blacksmith Richmond, VA planned to seize key points in the city and capture the governor, James Monroe it rained the day Gabriel launched his rebellion they were captured hanged | 55 | |
| 8023971620 | Charles Deslondes | leader of the largest slave revolt in American history trusted mixed-race slave overseer responsible for supervising the field hands | 56 | |
| 8034092238 | Denmark Vesey Plot | plan to assault the white population 1822 planned to seize ships in the harbor and burn the city never got off the ground | 57 | |
| 8034126075 | Thomas Gray | Nat Turner's lawyer published an account of Turner's rebellion | 58 | |
| 8034157036 | Turner's Rebellion | 1831 VA enslaved blacks greatly outnumbered free whites started with Turner's owners fifty-seven whites killed whites killed many blacks when putting it down terrified white southerners by making real the lurking fear that enslaved blacks might revolt VA legislature restricted the ability of slaves to learn and to gather for religious meetings other states followed suit | 59 | |
| 8034160933 | Nat Turner | lead Turner's Rebellion a trusted black overseer self-anointed preacher believed he had a divine mission in leading a slave rebellion hanged | 60 |
