12/15 Flashcards
The only port city in antebellum United States bigger than New Orleans
New York
Many leading antebellum Louisiana silversmiths were immigrants from ________
Germany
Most plantations have at least one field of corn on the property, used to feed _______ and
slaves and live stock
Although many city slaves were skilled workers, most worked as. Three of duties were
Domestic Servants
-Running errands
-Shop and serve for household
-Care for master, animals garden
The property of most plantations near New Orleans ran from the _______ to_______
Mississippi to Pontchartrain
Most makers and street vendors in antebellum New Orleans were women of what 2 ethnicities?
African American, Native American
Why did most masters and mistresses of plantations had not do much socializing with other plantation owners. (2 reasons)
A. Plantations were far apart
B. Busy running plantation
In the context of Louisiana in the 1800’s, “Antebellum mean______.”
before the civil war
What two factors could harm cotton production?
- bad weather
-Insects
Converting sugar cane into granules was important to sugar manufacturers because it improved _____ and _____ of sugar
storing and shipping
Sold good to the general public
retail merchants
Explain how plantations were mostly “self sufficient”?
Self-sufficient means needing no outside help and slaves did most of the work
Manufactures produced items and sold them in one location. Their main activity was the conversation of ________ into _________.
Raw material, finished product.
Many African Americans in Louisiana practiced a religion called _______, which blended many religious and spiritual beliefs and practices that originated in Africa.
Nola
The opportunity for enslaved people to earn money on Sundays, their day of rest enabled them to patronize the market women and other vendors, who sold goods such as:
Pecan Pies, Pralines, Roasted Penuts, and Molasses Candy .
Area in antebellum, New Orleans where there many retail shops
Canal street
Man-mate_______ and_______ in the north broke the Mississippi River’s monopoly on western trade. Ever increasing imports of _______ however, helped New
Orleans retain its status as a leading antebellum port.
canals, rail roads Southern cotton
Both invented ways to improve sugar production
Norbert Rilieux and La Salle
In this period, most river trade was conducted by ________
steamboat (type of vessel.
______ in New Orleans served as a gathering place for African Americans, most of them enslaved, where traditional music, dance, and cuisine of their mother continent could be openly enjoyed
The 9th Century
This was used to keep cotton picking at a high level on plantations
Whipping
Sold goods in very large quantities
Wholesale merchants
From 1800 to 1840, _____ people made up a majority of the New Orleans population.
Slave and free
Why did sugar producers need slave labor?
Free people did not want to do the work because the work was hard to do
Large grants of land given by Louisiana to influential people
Concessions
Most masters did not allow slaves to learn to______. So slaves passed down historical memories and culture to their next generation through_______.
Read and write
Speaking orally
name 2 products Louisiana farmers produced with sugar cane
Molasses
Rum
The most influential, powerful, and prosperous business in antebellum New Orleans
Commission Agents
Explain the service that “commission agents” provided in antebellum New Orleans, and explain why they were in such demand.
Middleman between the buyers (planters) and the sellers.
Jules lyon introduced this type of photography to New Orleans
Daguerreotype
A skilled that many free balck and slave women provided for masters and clients
Sewing
Smaller land holdings given to most colonists
Habitations
Name 3 trades that were dominated by free black men in antebellum New Orleans
Painting
Carpentry
Barrell making
