20 terms from Chapter 16 in the American Pageant
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| 1025573074 | Eli Whitney | Invented the Cotton Gin Cotton Production increase (1lb/day --> 1,000 lbs/day) Drove for a need for more land = more slaves Cotton became "King" Led to a New Era | 1 | |
| 1025573075 | Planter Aristocracy | Enjoyed a lion's share of Southern wealth 1,733 owned 100+ slaves =cream of political and social leadership Educated children in finest schools Obligated to serve the public | 2 | |
| 1025573076 | Sir Walter Scott | Favorite author of the South Supported feudal society Accused by Twain of starting the Civil War | 3 | |
| 1025573077 | Land Butchery | Excessive Cultivation Caused heavy leakage of pop. to West and Northwest Caused soil to become infertile | 4 | |
| 1025573078 | Free Blacks | "Third Race" Vulnerable in South to being hijacked back into slavery Prohibited from working certain jobs Hated by Irish b/c job competition Unpopular in North (Denied the right to vote and education) | 5 | |
| 1025573079 | Frederick Douglas | Black abolitionist and self educated orator Former slave Mobbed and beaten by Northern whites | 6 | |
| 1025573080 | Black Ivory | A term given to slaves when there was such a high demand and smuggling began after 1808 | 7 | |
| 1025573081 | Sold Down the River | Process where slaves were sold from soil-exhausted slave states. Commonly sent from Virginia to the lower Mississippi Valley. | 8 | |
| 1025573082 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Seized emotional power from slave auctions to capture an audience. Abolitionist Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | 9 | |
| 1025573083 | Driver | A Black man who had the power over and oversaw the work of other Black slaves. | 10 | |
| 1025573084 | Black Belt | Stretched from South Carolina and Georgia into Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Where most slaves were concentrated. Where the Cotton Kingdom burst in a few short decades | 11 | |
| 1025573085 | Peculiar Institution | The system of slavery in the South Caused antislavery societies to form Inhumane Euphemism for slavery | 12 | |
| 1025573086 | American Colonization Society | Founded in 1817 to transport slaves back to Africa They would send slaves to the Republic of Liberia | 13 | |
| 1025573087 | Theodore Dwight Weld | Abolitionist against the sin of slavery Appealed to untutored farmers Fanned across Old Northwest Assemble propaganda pamphlet "America Slavery as It Is" Most effective abolitionist tract Influenced "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | 14 | |
| 1025573088 | William Loyd Garrison | Mild-looking reformer Published "The Liberator" Triggered a 30 year war of words Wouldn't tolerate the poisonous weed of slavery | 15 | |
| 1025573089 | American Slavery Society | Founded in 1833 by abolitionists dedicated to Garrison's standard | 16 | |
| 1025573090 | Wendell Phillips | Boston patrician known as "abolition's golden trumpet." Ate no cane sugar & wore no cotton cloth because they were produced by southern slaves Member of the American Slavery Society | 17 | |
| 1025573091 | David Walker | Black abolitionist Wrote "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" Advocated a bloody end to white supremacy | 18 | |
| 1025573092 | Sojourner Truth | Freed black woman who fought for black emancipation and women's rights Condemned the sin of slavery | 19 | |
| 1025573093 | Gag Resolution | Required all antislavery appeals to be tabled without debate Attack on the right to petition John Q. Adams fought successfully for its repeal | 20 |
