History Unit 5 King Cotton And Southern Expansion Flashcards
What introduced southern expansion
The cotton gin
What’s the black belt
Expansion strip of states (AL, MI, huge population of slaves transitioned to there)
Alabama fever
Push to going to Alabama (settlers) after native Americans lost territory
Indian removals bc of cotton
Demand for slavery increases, to match profit margins
International views on slavery
GB bans slavery in 1807
US bans importation of slaves in 1808
Internal Slave Trade
Importance of the internal slave trade
Women treated better if found to be fertile
Sold “down the river”
Sent to Louisiana sugar mills or rice plantations–>HARSHEST conditions
Economics of slavery
Connection to British textile industry Connections to northern industry Shipping Insurance Banking Sharp increase on exports of cotton
Cotton culture
Neglect of cities
Little industry
Few railroads
American slave system
4 million slaves by 1860
75% lived in groups of 10 men or more
Natural increase
Slave Life
Paternalism "cradle to grave" Held in bets interest of slave Field hands House servants Artisans and skilled workers Slave families --> broken up
Religion
Many move towards Christianity
Bible as a source of salvation
“Spirituals” religious field songs
Resistance / revolts
Stone Rebellion
Nat turner
Upper and lower south
Underground Railroad
Free blacks
Manumission (individual) v emancipation (universal, ie state)
Black codes
Poor whites
Independent, family sized farms, pine forests, swamps
Seen as less enterprising/successful
The planter elite
Inherited wealth
Paternalism
Roles of women
Defense of slavery
Bible Greece Rome constitution
Abolition movement
WL Garrison
Gag rule (refusal of discussion of slavery in senate)
Grimke sisters
