American Pageant ed. 13: Chapter 16 Main Ideas
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US History [1]
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Americas [4]
Racism [5]
Slave Trade [6]
slavery [8]
Abolitionism [9]
Atlantic slave trade [10]
Slave rebellion [11]
Nat Turner [12]
Social Issues [14]
Chapter 16 Cotton is King p. 350 Before Eli Whitney?s cotton gin slavery was diminishing, but after it became a profitable business, the South produced half the world?s supply of cotton, and believed that England would support the south if civil war broke out. The Planter ?Aristocracy? p.351 Families owning more than 100 slaves were considered wealthy aristocrats, the new plantation also gave women the role of commanding the female slaves of the house. Slaves of the Slave System p. 352 The cotton plant ruined the soil and thus wealthy farmers were constantly in search of new land, cotton provided the South with a one-crop economy which needed slaves in order to survive. The White Majority p. 353