The Slave Trade, The South, and Plantations

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• Why was Ogelthorpe's prohibition of slavery reversed?
• How was life in the Tidewater different from life in the backcountry South?
• How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act affect the amount of land that was open to slavery?
• What problems did Southern cotton planters face?
• How did the conflict over slavery lead to Bleeding Kansas?
• How did African slaves contribute to the development of the Americas?
• How did Harriet Tubman become a conductor on the Underground Railroad?
• Why did the nation's business boom bypass the South?
• How did the three-fifths compromise help the south preserve slavery?
• What impact did the three-fifths compromise have on the political future of the United States?
• Was the three-fifths compromise necessary to achieve ratification of the constitution?
• Who invented the cotton gin?
• What was the connection between the Three-Fifths Compromise and taxes?
• How did the American Revolution affect some American views of the enslavement of African Americans?
• What early political party formed because it did not support slavery?
• Who was Eli Whitney? What were his main contributions to American society?
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• How did slaves — and many free people — fight the system of slavery? What happened after the Civil War?
• Why did the Southern states want the Constitution to classify a slave as three-fifths of a person?
• Which 2 slave states bordered the free state of lllinois?
• Why did slave owners prevent slaves from being educated?
• Why did the Fugitive Slave Act anger Northerners?
• Which slave state and which free state were admitted a result of the Missouri Compromise?
• Which compromise guaranteed that the slave trade could exist for 20 years?
• What were the black codes?
• Why did many Southerners oppose Republican control of the national government?
• What act said that all runaway slaves should be returned to their owners?
• What enormous area of land was anchored to the South by the city of New Orleans?
• What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise?
• Who wrote The Liberator?
• How did the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 affect the use of slave labor in the South?
• How did the cotton gin sped up the production of cotton?
• What did some Northern states do to oppose the Fugitive Slave Act?
• What new technology made cotton "king" in the South in the 1800s?
• What is the main reason the Southern economy was dependent on slave labor?
• What determined the status of slavery in territories in the 1850s?
• Who was John Brown?
• If there were nearly 4,000,000 slaves in the United States, why did only 100,000 escape along the railroad?
• How many slaves escaped along the underground railroad between 1810-1850?
• Why did the South use slavery in their economy?
• By the 1850s, what did the North feel about slavery?
• Where was the Confederate capital located?
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• What are some examples of slaves resisting their masters?
• How was the South good for farming?
• Why did plantation owners begin to import African slaves to work their farms?
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• Why did the cotton gin cause the plantation system to expand?
• What American invention helped to increase cotton production?
• What is a cash crop?
• What did the open ranges of Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming become important areas for?
• What was the name of the policy that would allow settlers in the new territories to vote for or against slavery?
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• What invention had the biggest impact on South Carolina during the Antebellum period?
• In the 1850s, why did many runaway slaves go to Canada?
• What was the "Weeping Time"?
• What is meant by being sold "down river" or "sold south"?
• How did the cotton gin lead to a rise in slavery?
• Why did the Southern states secede from the Union?
• What was The Liberator?
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• How did slavery affect the development of the Southern economy?
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• What did the Fugitive Slave Law require?
• The Emancipation Proclamation did not include freeing the slaves in which states?
• How did Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth join in on the call to end slavery?
• In the 1830s, where was the cotton manufacturing center of the world?
• What writers wrote books that turned many Americans against slavery?
• What was a fear of Southern senators if there were more free states than slave states?
• What provision did the Compromise of 1850 include?
• Who was the Supreme Court Chief Justice in the Dred Scott decision?
• Why did the Supreme Court free the slaves who led an insurrection on the Spanish slave ship the Amistad?
• Why did the Supreme Court rule the federal government could not prohibit slavery in the territories?
• Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book about the evils of slavery?
• What happened in the South when the number of Indentured servants dropped?