Economic Changes White Society Slave Culture Cultural Nationalism And Utopia Abolition

The biggest change to Southern agriculture was the switch from Sea Isle Cotton to 100

Short-staple Cotton 100

What infrastructure was lacking which prevented the South from Industrializing? 200

Canals and roads, banking systems, manufacturing centers (cities), etc. 200

List two reasons why the South did not invest more in diversification of its economy? 300

There was a great deal of profit in Cotton and slaveholders had invested all capital in agriculture (land and slaves); Its climate was suited for agriculture as planting had become a way of life 300

What name was given to the lower South? 400

Cotton Kingdom 400

What impact did the changes in the Southern economy have on the slave population? 500

Dramatic increase fueled by the slave trade from the Upper South to the Lower South 500

Dominated the political and social affairs of the region 100

Planter class 100

Perhaps owned a few slaves, little social mobility, dependent on plantation system 200

Small farmer 200

Lived off the land, and therefore had no ties to the plantation system nor the institution of slavery 300

Hill people 300

Moniker/nickname given to whites whose lives were little better than slaves 400

Clay-eaters, crackers, poor white trash 400

Who said “Women, like children, have but one right, and that is the right to protection. The right to protection involves the obligation to obey” 500

George Fitzhugh 500

As a response to slavery, African Americans developed their own culture including unique forms of 100

Music, language, religion and kinship 100

Slaves in the south often had better lives than two other African American groups 200

Free blacks in Northern Cities and slaves in the Caribbean 200

Because of the isolation, and frequency of abuse and harsh discipline working as a _________________ slave was an unpopular assignment 300

household 300

Why were slaves rarely used in industrial jobs in the cites? 400

Too dangerous (loss of investment) and possible slave rebellion 400

What event caused stricter slave codes and fewer examples of slaves earning their freedom 500

Nat Turner’s Rebellion 500

This religious group encountered numerous attacks as a result of their belief of the importance of the family unit, particularly the custom of bigamy 100

Mormons 100

Whose philosophy stressed an intimate connection between man and nature, on self-reliance and American values, to transcend intellect and get in touch with the emotional state of being human 200

Ralph Waldo Emerson 200

Whose Transcendentalist ideals led him to write about a moral justification for not adhering to unjust laws (civil disobedience) 300

Henry David Thoreau 300

At this utopian community, gender roles were redefined by cutting off all conjugal ties; This religious movement redefined gender roles by advocating strict celibacy 400

Oneida Community (Perfectionists); Shakers 400

Painters who aimed to capture the raw beauty of nature, the wild and sublime 500

Hudson River School 500

The most prominent Abolitionist leader who escaped from slavery was… 100

Frederick Douglass 100

This newspaper editor was criticized for his extreme views on slavery, which included the immediate emancipation of slaves without reparations 200

William Lloyd Garrison 200

The early antislavery movement called for a return to Africa philosophy spearheaded by this organization 300

American Colonization Society 300

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of African mutineers in this famous case argued by Representative John Quincy Adams 400

Amistad Case 400

How many copies did Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin sell in the first year? 500

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