American Republic Flashcards
Laws in southern states that controlled enslaved people aimed at preventing rebilion
slave codes
farmers without slaves and the largest group of whites in the south
yeomen
a southerner who realizes the south was to committed to cotton and dependent on northern manufactured goods. He opened a textile mill in south carolina
William Gregg
slaves who planted, cultivated, and picked cotton and other plants supervised by an overseer
field hands
money to invest in business. The south’s investments were in land and slaves
capital
tobacco, hemp, wheat and vegetables
crops of the upper south
trade centers in southern cities
cotton exchange
cotton with sugar cane and rice
crops of the deep south
slaves who worked in the owners houses
domestic slaves
a network of safe houses that assisted runaways
underground railroad
an african american man who was born into slavery but gained his freedom by escaping to the north
Frederick Douglass
the ability to read and write
literacy
plantation manager
overseer
took over the Tredegar iron works in the 1840s and it became a leading producer of iron and provided artillery during the civil war
Joseph Reid Anderson
a popular religious leader among the slaves who taught himself to read and write
Nat Turner
