Chapter 12 Flashcards

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In many fields, blacks influenced snd enriched

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The region’s development

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The profitable and convenience of owning slaves as well as the psychological appeal of owning slaves

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Created a sense of racial unity

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Why were there fewer immigrants to the South

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Main shipping lines went to the North and slavery isolated the region

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The Lower South gree

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Increasingly dependent upon labor intensive cotton production and slave labor. Slaves represent half of the population

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The Middle South had

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Diversified agricultural economies and included large areas without slavery

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In the Upper South,

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Slavery began to decline

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What all three regions agreed on was

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To keep slavery

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Paternalism

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Incorporated slaves into their housego

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Whites increasingly believed that only

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Constant vigilance, supervision, terror, intimidation, and punishment would keep slaves in order

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Rice production was very expensive because

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It required large machinery and few plantations could afford it. In addition, it required floodgates and irrigation ditches

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Sugar was also expensive because of high machinery

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Sugar needed a protective tariff. Louisiana is a large supporter

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Three factors of growth

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Cotton gin, demand of cotton by Britain and France, and the aggressive cultivation of farmlands in the newer states

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Many of the blacks moved in

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Chained gangs from plantations and slave markets

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Cotton could be cultivated in

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Small farms

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Why did South believe they needed manufacturing?

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Not need dependence from the North

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Lag in industrial movement in south because of

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Blacks supposed inability to work in factories and gentlemen grew disdain for industrial production

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Karl Mark in the communist manifesto stated thag

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Without cotton you have no modern industry

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James H. Hammond said

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You dare not make war with cotton. No power on earth can wage war on it w

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What distinguished between a plantation and a farm?

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Large labor and staple crops,

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The mistress of the plantation

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Oversaw the supply and preparation of food and linens, the household snd care of the sick

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Mary chestnut complained that

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Wives are slaves. They do the domestic activities of the household and managed the slaves

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Husbands followed the rule of

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Self indulgent hedonism

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What sis the yeomen do?

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Grew some corn and cotton and traded with their neighbors

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Southern farmers were typically

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Mobile folk, ever willing to pull up stakes and move west for better lands

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They tended to be

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Independent and suspicious of federal authority

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Yeomen feared that if slaves were freed

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They would compete for land

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Despite such restrictions, slaves found ways to

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Forge networks of community that enabled them to sustain thei rfolk heritage

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Most free blacks were

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Very poor

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Some mulattoes built substantial fortunes

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And even became slave owners

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Why did the South want to treat their slaves better?

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So they could increase the cash value of slaves

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Some slaveholders hired wage

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Laborers, often Irish i

Immigrants for ditching and other dangerous work

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Slaves who,were field hands

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Were organized into work gangs, usually supervised by a black driver or white overseer

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What was the difference between a good owner or bad owner?

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How much they whipped you

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Where did escapees run to?

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Mexico, the North, or Canada

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City life meant that enslaved blacks interacted

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Not only with their white owners but also the interracial community

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Some slaves in cities were hired out on the condition that they

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Paid a percentage of their earned wages to the North. Slaves in North enjoyed greater mobility and freedom

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Pregnant slaves were given

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More food and less work

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One women passed child bearing years, their

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Labor increased

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Grannies wioild keep,

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The children during the day

39
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What were spirituals?

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Songs that expressed their frustration at being kept in bondage

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What was the main religion of the blacks?

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One Supreme God, and lesser deities like Christ and the Holy Ghost

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Belief in magic is a common human response to

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Conditions of danger or helplessness