The SouthCotton (8.51)

Cotton Gin

• Invented by _______________________________________________

• Removed ______________________________________________________________________

• One person could do _____________________________________________________________

King Cotton

• Cotton uses up nutrients in the soil

• Crop rotation necessary

Based on the chart, how much cotton was produced in the U.S. in 1790? _______________________

Why did the demand for slaves increase after 1790? __________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________

Name the cotton producing states:

1.________________________________

2. ________________________________

3. ________________________________

4. ________________________________

5. ________________________________

6. ________________________________

7. ________________________________

8. ________________________________

9. ________________________________

10. _______________________________

Which parts of Tennessee produced cotton? ________________________________________________

Secondary Source Time Out: Memphis as the Cotton Capital

Southern Society (8.52)

Antebellum = ________________________________________________________________________

• Glorification of all things _______________________________:

– ________________________________

– ________________________________

– ________________________________

Southern Society—Men

• ______________________________________________________________________________

• ______________________________________________________________

• respected his ___________________________ and treated _____________________________

with _________________________________________.

• A man was to defend the _________________________________, with his

__________________________________________.

• A _________________________________ to an _____________________________ or his

_________________________ resulted in a _________________________________________

• Acceptable jobs:

• _____________________________, ____________________________, ______________________________, or _______________________________________

• Most men went to a ______________________________________________:

_________________________________ or ____________________________________

Southern Society—Women

• Nicknamed ____________________________________________

• entertained _______________________________________________________

• defended _________________________________________________________

• ____________________________________________

Plantations

• Planters

– ________________________________________________________

– ________________________________________________________

• A large plantation might cover ____________________________________________________

• The _________________ of the plantation owner was to ________________________________

• The owners usually lived in ________________________________________________________

• They measured their _______________________________ partly by the number of

______________________they owned and by their ________________________________-

• Larger plantations functioned as a _______________________________ with their own

________________________, _____________________________, they held their own

___________________________________________, and their children were

_________________________________instead of _____________________________________

• The owner’s wife had the responsibility of ___________________________and

__________________________ for the ____________________________, keeping the

__________________________________________supervising___________________________

__________________________, and tending to

______________________________________when the owner was away selling the cotton

Yeoman

• Most southerners were yeoman or __________________________________________________

• _________________________________________

• A yeoman’s farm usually had ________________________________ and they

___________________________for their ______________________________ and for

_____________________________ or they _________________________crops for

_____________________________________such as carpenters or blacksmiths

Tenant Farmer

• A tenant farmer __________________________________________________________________

• The rural poor lived in __________________________________ and cleared enough land to

raise a _____________________________________________________________________, and

________________________________ and ____________________________ for food.

What is the difference between a yeoman farmer and a tenant farmer?

__________________________________________________________________________________

Secondary and Primary Source Time Out: New Madrid Earthquake (8.53)

Slavery (8.71)

• Slaves were ____________________________________________________________________

• Treated like ____________________________________________________________________

• Families __________________________________________________

• Slaves were ____________________________________________________________________

• Three possible jobs:

– _________________________________

– _________________________________

– _________________________________

Field

• The enslaved workers who worked in the ____________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

• They were supervised by an _______________________________________________________

• Driver: ________________________________________________________________________

Home

• Some enslaved workers were needed in the house for __________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

Skilled Job

• Other enslaved workers were trained as _____________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

Living Conditions

• Lived in _______________________________________________

• Little _________________________________________________

• ______________________________________________________

• Slaves punished in _________________________________________________________

Slaves Codes

• ______________________________________________________________________________

• ______________________________________________________________________________

Free African Americans

Lived in the _____________________________________________________________________

– could not

• _________________________________________________________________

• _________________________________________________________________

• _________________________________________________________________

Nat Turner’s Rebellion (8.71)

• Slave from ______________________________________---thought ______________________

______________________________________________________________________________

• Led group of ____________________________________________________________________

– _____________________________________________________________________

– _____________________________________________________________________

– _____________________________________________________________________