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What was the cotton gin?
A machine that separated the cotton seeds from the fibers.
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Did the cotton gin lead to an increase or decrease in slave demand?
Increase
True or False. The availability of cotton helped the norther textile industry.
True
What was the "cotton belt"?
A large agricultural region in the south that primarily grew cotton.
In what way could it be argued that Northerners benefited from slavery?
Northern textile manufacturing needed the cotton from the south and southern planters used slaves as labor.
What legislation in 1807 led to the increase of the American-born slave trade?
The Importation Ban (Africans could no longer be legally taken for slavery)
Who were the "planters" in the south?
Plantation owners who had 20 or more slaves.
What does the "big house" refer to?
The planter's house (on the plantation)
What was the largest group in white southern society?
The small farmers.
True or False. Most small farmers in the South supported slavery even if they didn't have any.
True.
True or False. There was no manufacturing in the South at this time.
False.
What are three legal restrictions that white southerners created for free African Americans?
could not: vote, carry guns, travel without a pass, speak at public meetings, learn to write
What were "slave codes"? Give two of them
Slaves could not: testify against whites in court, travel without authorization, hit a white person, carry a gun etc.
True or False. A slaveholder was not allowed to break up a slave family.
False.
What was a slave auction?
The place where slaves were put on display and often prodded while buyers bid on them.
