Historical Period 4: Part 4 Flashcards
What was the foundation of the South’s economy?
Agriculture
What was the source of the South’s chied economic activity?
The production and sale of cotton
What made cotton cloth affordable?
The development of mechanized textile mills and Eli Whitney’s cotton gin
How did a few sensitive White southerners regard slavery?
As a peculiar institution
What was the justification behind slavery?
That it was an economic necessity and that it had historical and religious importance
What did the demand for cotton in this time period lead to in regards to slavery?
It increased slavery
What did southern legislatures do in reaction to slave revolts?
Increased restrictions on movement and education to their slave codes
Why wasn’t the South as industrailized as the North?
Its heavy capital investment in slavery meant that it had less capital to undertake industrialization
What were the hillbillies, or poor White trash?
They were White farmers who still felt superior to Black people on the social scale
What was the largest city in the South during this time period?
New Orleans
Did the antebellum reform movements of the first half of the 19th century impact the South?
They had little impact on the South because the southerners were more committed to tradition and slower in supporting public education and humanitarian reforms
