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What replaced sugar as the world’s major crop produced by slave labor in the 1800s?
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What replaced sugar as the world’s major crop produced by slave labor in the 1800s? Cotton
What agricultural tool helped spread cotton production? The cotton gin
What type of economy remained dominant in the South during the Market Revolution? Agricultural and plantation-based
What did the South reproduce as it expanded westward? The agrarian, slave-based social order
How many people were involved in the domestic slave trade? More than 2 million
What was the name given to the domestic slave trade route? The “Second Middle Passage”
Why did older southern states like Virginia rely on the domestic slave trade? To sell enslaved people to the Deep South for cotton plantations
Could the Cotton Kingdom have arisen without the domestic slave trade? No
Which slave trading company was based in Alexandria, Virginia? Franklin and Armfield Slave Trading Company
What types of transportation moved enslaved people and goods? Ships and railroads
What did Northern companies do to participate in the slave economy? Insured slave property and transported cotton
What did Northern factories use cotton for? To manufacture cloth
How did money from the cotton trade benefit the North? It financed industrial development and internal improvements
Who profited from the slave economy besides the South? Northern merchants and manufacturers
What percent of the world’s cotton supply came from the southern U.S.? 75%
Name at least three global regions that used Southern U.S. cotton. England, France, Germany, Massachusetts, New York, Russia
What argument did John C. Calhoun make about slavery in 1837? He said it was a “safe and stable basis for free institutions”
What was the term for the Southern justification of slavery through caring for dependents? Paternalism
How did many pro-slavery individuals justify slavery using religion? They used Bible verses like “servants should obey their masters”
What was a core part of the pro-slavery argument? Racism
Why did some say slavery was essential to human progress? They believed it enabled economic freedom for white people
What did many white Southerners believe about themselves in relation to the American Revolution? They saw themselves as the true heirs of liberty and independence
What did John C. Calhoun say about the Declaration of Independence? That its claim of equality was “the most false and dangerous of all political errors”
How did Southern leaders describe inequality? As a “fundamental law” of human existence
What revolution led to Haiti becoming independent and ending slavery? The Haitian Revolution
When did the British abolish slavery in their empire? 1833
By 1840, where had slavery been abolished in Spanish America? Mexico, Central America, Chile
What did Solomon Northup write in Twelve Years a Slave about the slave market scene? “It was a mournful scene indeed. I would have cried myself if I had dared.”
What did banks do in relation to slavery? Financed plantations and slave trading
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