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Nat Turner

Enduring Vision 8E Chapter 12 outline

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Slavery in the United States
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Chapter 12: The Old South and Slavery, 1830-1860, pg 341-371 CHAPTER LEAD-IN, pg 341 Nat Turner (literate preacher and prophet) uprising: August 22, 1831, South Hampton County, Virginia Led six other slaves to slaughter Joseph Travis, his wife, an infant and two other whites in the house with axes Moved into the countryside in gathered more followers killing whites as they went White militia & vigilantes responded by overpowering Turner?s Group and other blacks not involved, those not kill the sight were arrested and hanged Before execution Turner stated he was not personally mistreated by owners but his religious conviction that all slavery was evil in an offense to god Gabriel Prosser ?one other slave that had plotted rebellion but was caught before happening

Chapter 11 - Brinkley 13th edition

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Chapter 11: Life in the South Rise of Cotton- Inconsistency/decline in tobacco production -Reduced demand at absence of Europeans/internalized trade -Malignant towards soil (bad for soil) -Insufficient land Higher demand for cotton in northern states, in Europe -Short-staple cotton for more efficient production, can grow anywhere in the south >More cost-efficient >Cotton gin invention helped expand popularity/spread of short-staple cotton Attempts to grow rice and sugarcane -Rice is too complicated -Sugarcane is too expensive South-North Economic Relations- Two-way dependency between regions in trade Southern Railroads -Local -Deemed obsolete/useless -Underdeveloped -No connections to any major railroads Slavery 1808 Abolition of Slave Trade -Boosts internal slave trade

Chapter 11 - Brinkley 13th edition

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Treatment of slaves in the United States
Social Issues

Chapter 11: Life in the South Rise of Cotton- Inconsistency/decline in tobacco production -Reduced demand at absence of Europeans/internalized trade -Malignant towards soil (bad for soil) -Insufficient land Higher demand for cotton in northern states, in Europe -Short-staple cotton for more efficient production, can grow anywhere in the south >More cost-efficient >Cotton gin invention helped expand popularity/spread of short-staple cotton Attempts to grow rice and sugarcane -Rice is too complicated -Sugarcane is too expensive South-North Economic Relations- Two-way dependency between regions in trade Southern Railroads -Local -Deemed obsolete/useless -Underdeveloped -No connections to any major railroads Slavery 1808 Abolition of Slave Trade -Boosts internal slave trade

slavery and sectionalism vocabulary

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Slavery and Sectionalism (1845-1860) 136. Nat Turner?s Rebellion: Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Virginia, attacked many whites, prompted non-slaveholding Virginians to consider emancipation 137. Yeoman Farmers: family farmers who hired out slaves for the harvest season, self-sufficient, participated in local markets alongside slave owners 138. Underground Railroad: network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom Harriet Tubman ? worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom 139. ?Wage slaves?: northern factory workers who were discarded when too old to work (unlike the slaves who were still kept fed and clothed in their old age) 140. Nativism: anti-immigrant, especially against Irish Catholics

American Pageant ed. 13: Chapter 16 Main Ideas

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Chapter 16 Cotton is King p. 350 Before Eli Whitney?s cotton gin slavery was diminishing, but after it became a profitable business, the South produced half the world?s supply of cotton, and believed that England would support the south if civil war broke out. The Planter ?Aristocracy? p.351 Families owning more than 100 slaves were considered wealthy aristocrats, the new plantation also gave women the role of commanding the female slaves of the house. Slaves of the Slave System p. 352 The cotton plant ruined the soil and thus wealthy farmers were constantly in search of new land, cotton provided the South with a one-crop economy which needed slaves in order to survive. The White Majority p. 353
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