Cause and Effect American Pageant 16 Flashcards

Cause and Effect 1793-1860

630105682	Whitney's cotton gin and southern frontier expansionism	Turned the South into a booming one-crop economy where "cotton was king"	0
630105683	Excessive soil cultivation and financial speculation	Created dangerous weaknesses beneath the surface prosperity of the southern cotton economy	1
630105684	Belief in white superiority and the hope of owning slaves	Kept poor, non slaveholding whites committed to a system that actually harmed them	2
630105685	The selling of slaves at auctions	Often resulted in the cruel separation of black families	3
630105686	The slaves' love of freedom and hatred of their condition	Caused slaves to work slowly, steal from their masters, and frequently run away	4
630105687	The religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening	Stirred a fervent abolitionist commitment to fight the "sin" of slavery	5
630105688	Politically minded abolitionists like Frederick Douglas	Opposed Garrison and organized the Liberty party and the Free soil party	6
630105689	Garrison's Liberator and Nat Turner's bloody slave rebellion	Aroused deep fears of rebellion and ended rational discussion of slavery in the South	7
630105690	White southern defenses of slavery as a "positive good"	Widened the moral and political gap between the white South and the rest of the Western world	8
630105691	The constant abolitionist agitation in the North	Made abolitionists personally unpopular but convinced many Northerners that slavery was a threat to American freedom	9