1. SOUTHERN COTTON KINGDOM
Chapter 14, LESSON 3
EQ: Why do people make economic choices ?

2. Vocabulary: Ch. 14, Lesson 3 &4 (Use the Packet)
domestic slave trade
yeomen
Overseer
slave codes
Underground Railroad
Literacy

3. Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
Most Southerners lived along the Atlantic coast in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina in what became known as the Upper South.
By 1850 the South had changed.
Its population had spread inland to the states of the Deep South – Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.
Slavery grew stronger than ever in the South.

4. Cotton Rules the Deep South
The North and mills in Europe demanded cotton.
But cotton took time and labor to produce.
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793—cotton production was faster and it increased.
Slave could now clean 50 lbs. of cotton a day – instead of one pound by hand.

5. Cotton Production & Slavery Increased
Cotton production increases
More workers needed to produce cotton—slavery increased
The Upper South became a center for the sale and movement of enslaved people.
Domestic slave trade

6. Southern Economy
Unlike the industrial North, the South remained rural, and its economy became increasingly different from the Northern economy.
South produced less manufactured good.
It had no need to produced goods while it had cotton!

7. Activity #1 Chapter 14, Lesson 3 Packet Questions #1-8
Write and Answer the Questions
Due 8:40 am.

8. LESSON 4 EQ: How do people adapt to their environment?
PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH
LESSON 4
EQ: How do people adapt to their environment?

9. Southern Farmers
Most white Southerners were yeomen, tenant farmers, rural poor, or plantation owners.
Yeomen: owned small farms
Plantation owners: wealthy land owners who owned slaves.

10. Plantations Making money was the goal of plantation owners.
Produced cotton
Price of cotton changed season to season, therefore plantations had good and bad years.

11. Slaves in Plantations Worked in plantations
Cleaned house, cooked, did laundry, and served meals
Others were trained as blacksmiths, carpenters, or shoemakers.
Took care of livestock.
Most enslaved Africans were filed hands (worked the land)—an overseer (plantation manager) supervised them.
By1808 no more slaves were imported to the USA—it was illegal.

12. The Lives of Enslaved People
They worked hard, earned no money, and had little hope of freedom.
Lived in fear
Developed a culture (way of life) of their own.
Blended African and American elements.

13. Slave Codes
Laws in the Southern states that controlled enslaved people.
Made to prevent rebellions
Examples
Slaves not allowed to meet in large groups
Needed written passes to leave slaveholder’s property
Teaching slaves to read and write was a crime

14. Nat Turner’s Rebellion 1831

15. Underground Railroad
Enslaved blacks tried to run way to freedom in the North
A runaway might receive help from the Underground Railroad
A network of “safe houses” owned by people who were against slavery.
Most runaways were captured and returned to their owners

16. Activity Write and Answer the Questions Chapter 14, Lesson 4
Questions #10, 11, and 12
Questions #14 and#15

17. Assessment: Part I 1. Read North and South and highlight information.
Identify the geography/climate, economy, society, and transportation differences between the North and the South during the early 1800’s.

18. Assessment: Part II
2. Create a table in which you identify geography/climate, economy, society, and transportation differences of the North and South.
Differences
North
South
Geography/climate
3 facts
Economy
Society
Transportation

19. Assessment Part III.
Was life in the North and South more similar or different before the Civil War? Why or why not?