7.3 PROJECT

SOUTHERN PLANTERS

• Southern cash crops The 3 main cash crops Tobacco, Rice and Indigo
• The Southern Colonies were Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia

COTTON GIN

• Machine that easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds
• Made more cotton and it made it easier to make cotton
• Increased slaves, more cotton on plantations caused non-fertile soil.
• Cotton Production- providing 2/3 of the worlds supply of cotton
• "Cotton is king"- described the growth of american economy

SOUTHERN INDUSTRY & STRUCTURE

• Growing crops, cotton, cotton gin, slaves and trade
• Wealthy, middle class, poor white, immigrants, native americans and african americans
• Southern structure^^
• Southern planters and farmers made money from growing crops, making cotton and slaves

SLAVERY

• African americans that working on land in harsh conditions and serve shortage of labor
• Gang system was a brutal labor system used on plantations
• Task system was a more easy and humane labor for slaves
• Slave codes- were harsh restrictions on slaves freedom and giving slave owners absolute power
• Fredrick Douglass- escaped slavery, and became a leader of the abolitionist

FREE AMERICAN SLAVES

• Lived in southern states
• Some became slave owners themselves
• Cecee McCarty-female African american that made fortune importing dry goods
• James farten- was from Philadelphia and multiplied his money many times against a business man

AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE

• Songs were important to slaves & had secret meetings to express hope
• Religion was Baptist or methodist
• Wanted individual freedom
• Rebellions, slow downs, pretend sickness, abortion and ship attacks
• Benmark-African american who brought his freedom & planned the biggest rebellion of slavery