Plantation system

Question 1

Did not grow with the increase of cotton

Answer 1

Originally modelled on the sugar plantations of Brazil

Question 2

Plantation definition

Answer 2

A large farm employing twenty or more slaves which produced a staple crop for both domestic and foreign markets

Question 3

Plantation was

Answer 3

Farming for profit

Question 4

A planter

Answer 4

Had 20 or more enslaved people

Question 5

A small planter

Answer 5

Had 10-19 slaves

Question 6

A yeoman slaveholder

Answer 6

Had less than 9 slaves

Question 7

Percentage of tobacco planters who were classed as large plantations

Answer 7

10%
Nearly half of the slaves in America were part of this 10%

Question 8

Post civil war era demise of the cotton plantation

Answer 8

Did not lead to demise of cotton production

Question 9

Farmers who used slaves could

Answer 9

Increased their product output
Thus increasing their income
Could by more slaves

Question 10

Enslaved people grew most

Answer 10

Of the cotton in the South

Question 11

Slaves directly affected the labour system

Answer 11

Meant smaller farmers did not make significant profit because they yielded less

Question 12

3/4 of southerners

Answer 12

Did not hold slaves
However still supported the south in the civil war

Question 13

1790-1860

Answer 13

Wealthy people moved to the new south-west to create plantations
Indians removed from Georgia and Mississippi so white elite could grow cotton on the rich and fertile soil

Question 14

Waterways helped

Answer 14

Cotton more around the country

Question 15

“Blackbelt” of Alabama and Mississippi

Answer 15

Referred to the population tending to be a majority of slaves

Question 16

Using slaves and growing cotton

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Believed to be the right of the southern planters

Question 17

Southern white people did argue

Answer 17

That their region needed diversifying

Question 18

Profit was not the primary motivation

Answer 18

Maintaining the southern elite was important to planters
Saw themselves as a land of genry

Question 19

To follow northern industrialisation would

Answer 19

Ruin the slave
Difficult to maintain a slave in the northern mindset

Question 20

Industrialisation would invite

Answer 20

White workers to the region
Would compete for work with the slave population

Question 21

Main reason for the plantation system was

Answer 21

Capitalism

Question 22

1830s: south political ideology based on slavery

Answer 22

Was a threat/caused tension in the north