The South

The Cotton Kingdom The Southern ___________________ Largely Conservative saw little need for manufacturing or ______________________ Led to growth of _______________________ Few large cities only ________________________compared to northern cities Economy trade plantations New Orleans

Few factories made flour & cotton cloth Processed ________________________ Mostly for _______________________ use only land of small farms and large plantations large demand for cotton from: _____________________________ The _________________________ tobacco local Great Britain North

Cotton Gin The ___________________________was Invented by Eli Whitney (1793) Removed the seeds from cotton Cotton becomes _______________crop of the South Need for cotton led to growth of _______________________ Cotton production increases main plantations

Growth in ______________________________ US banned the import of slaves in ____________________. field hands cost $___________________ in 1790 $___________________ in 1860 smuggling slaves from the ________________________ capture free African Americans and enslave them Slavery in the South grew 1790 – _____________________ 1850 – _____________________ 1860 – _____________________ slavery 1808 350 1500 West Indies 500,000 3 million 4 million

Life in the South Class Structure ___________________________– owners of large plantations more land = more status (__________________________) owned ____________________________of acres ___________________________– farmers and ranchers made up ______________________part of southern population owned ________________________of acres not all owned slaves ___________________________– sharecroppers __________________part of population did not own land discriminated against Planters power thousands Yeoman large hundreds Poor Whites small

Free African Americans _________________________________________________ Descendants of slaves freed during the _________________________ ________________________their freedom Did not have the same rights as whites Discriminated against Many Fled North Slaves See Life as a Slave Notes Revolutionary War Bought Planters Yeoman Share Croppers Free African Americans Slaves