Chapters 16-17 Test Flashcards
What was the impact of the cotton gin?
Slavery was reinvigorated
What was the nature of the “planter aristocracy” in the South?
They controlled southern political and economic life
Why was plantation agriculture environmentally wasteful?
Cotton was destructive to the soil
Why didn’t German and Irish immigrants land in the South like they did in the North?
More job opportunity in the north
What would be an accurate social description of most white southerners?
Most were white farmers who grew enough food for their own use (sustenance farmers)
Who owned most slaves in the South?
Large plantations
What did free blacks in the North face?
Discrimination
What type of working assignments were slaves given?
Slaves were usually spared the dangerous jobs
What was the “slave’s greatest horror” as presented by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Family seperation
What did slave-owners use as a substitute for the wage-incentive system?
Threats
Where was the forced separation of spouses, parents, and children most common?
In the upper South
How did slaves fight the system of slavery?
- Revolts
- Work as slow as possible
- Stealing
- Breaking equipment
- Escaping
In the pre-Civil Was South, what was the most uncommon and least successful form of slave resistance?
Armed insurrection
Identify: William Lloyd Garrison
Called for immediate abolition
Identify: Wendell Phillips
Abolitionist orator
