1. The South

2. Cotton
Standard 8.51

3. Cotton Gin Invented by Eli Whitney Removed the seeds from cotton
One person could do the work of 50

8. Video Clip
Cotton Gin

9. King Cotton more cotton = more slaves
Cotton uses up nutrients in the soil
Crop rotation necessary

11. Name the cotton producing states.

12. Memphis as the Cotton Capital
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Memphis as the Cotton Capital

13. Southern Society
Standard 8.52

14. Time period before the Civil War
Antebellum
Time period before the Civil War

15. Southern Society Glorification of all things British: Horse riding
Etiquette
Hunting

16. Southern Society-fun fact
This is Thomas Lee’s home Stratford Hall in Virginia
His sons Richard Henry and Francis Lightfoot Lee ­ the only brothers to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Grandson Robert E. Lee born in this house

17. Southern Society--Men
courteous, truthful and honorable
Hospitable and generous
respected his family and treated women with high regard.

18. Southern Society--Men
A man was to defend the family name, with his life if necessary.
A personal insult to an individual or his family resulted in a fight or a duel.

19. Southern Society--Men
Acceptable jobs:
lawyer, politician, planter, or military man
Most men went to a military academy:
West Point or Virginia Military Institute

20. West Point—New York

21. VMI—Virginia

22. Southern Society—Women
Nicknamed Southern Belles
entertained guests
defended husband and children
not outspoken

23. Plantations
Planters
Wealthiest members of society
Lived on plantations
A large plantation might cover several thousand acres
The goal of the plantation owner was to make profits

24. Plantations The owners usually lived in comfortable farmhouses
They measured their wealth partly by the number of slaves they owned and by their possessions

25. Plantations
-Larger plantations functioned as a small community with their own blacksmiths, carpenters, they held their own church service, and their children were tutored instead of attending schools

26. Plantations
-The owner’s wife had the responsibility of watching over and caring for the workers, keeping the financial records, supervising fruit and vegetable gardens, and tending to overseeing when the owner was away selling the cotton

27. Yeoman Most southerners were yeoman or owners of small farms
few slaves

28. Yeoman
A yeoman’s farm usually had 50 to 200 acres and they grew crops for their own use and for selling or they traded crops for services such as carpenters or blacksmiths

29. Tenant Farmer A tenant farmer rented land and raised crops
The rural poor lived in crude cabins and cleared enough land to raise a garden and kept a hog or cow, and fished and hunted for food.

31. New Madrid earthquakes
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New Madrid earthquakes

32. Slavery
Standard 8.71

34. Slavery Slaves were sold at slave auctions Treated like livestock
Families split apart

36. Slavery Slaves were bought and sold like property Three possible jobs:
Field
House
Skilled jobs

37. Slavery
Field
The enslaved workers who worked in the fields from sunrise to sunset planting, raising, and harvesting crops were called field hands. They were supervised by an overseer.

38. Slavery
Overseer: White male in charge of the slaves

41. Slavery
Driver: Slave who urges the other slaves to work

44. Slavery
Home
Some enslaved workers were needed in the house for cleaning, cooking, serving meals, sewing, and doing laundry (domestic slaves)

47. Slavery
Skilled Job
Other enslaved workers were trained as blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers, or weavers. In later years these slaves used their trade to work and buy their freedom

48. Living Conditions

49. Living Conditions Lived in small cabins Little furnishings
Cheap clothing

54. Slaves punished in front of others as a warning

57. Slaves Codes Cannot travel far from home
Illegal to teach slaves to read and write

58. Free African Americans
Lived in the North and South
could not
vote, travel freely, or hold certain jobs
be married to a white husband or wife
had to be represented by a white person in business

59. Nat Turner Rebellion
Standard 8.71

60. Nat Turner Slave from Virginia---thought God told him to end slavery
Led group of slaves to kill slaveholders and their families
Killed 60 people
100 innocent slaves killed in retaliation
He was caught and executed

62. Video Clip
Nate Turner Rebellion