Growth of Slavery Flashcards
king cotton
- by 1840 - cotton is 1/2 of all american exports
- great britain needed cotton for their textile industries
- the north needed cotton for their textile industries
- demand is HUGE
planter aristocracy
- by 1850 - 1733 families own the majority of slaves in the south
- large plantations with 100s of slaves
- plantation owners have the most “wealth” in both money and property in the South
- plantation owners children were well educated
- female wives of plantation owners had a large house staff (slaves)
northern industry
- textile industry booms
- factory jobs
- no slaves
the “black belt”
- deep south (s.c. to georgia - then to mississippi and alabama)
- cotton booms
- life of a slave in this region is exceptionally harsh
early abolitionism
- american colonization society - wanted to return slaves to africa
- the liberator - newspaper against slavery - william lloyd garrison
- american anti-slavery society (1833) forms
remember this…
the united states begins to be divided. the “mason-dixon” line forms - between slave states and free states. the civil war is beginning to creep into the heart of america
75% of early southern states ________
did not own slaves
what was abolitionism?
the movement to prevent the use of slaves
in early northern states there was an increase in ________, which eliminated the need for slaves
the industrial society
in early southern states a person’s wealth was based on what he owned, also known as ______
planter aristocracy forms
the early northern industries were ________
dependent on the south for cotton
the key difference between the two economies that were formed in the early north and south is that _______
the planter economy was based on slaves for labor and the industrial economy was not
