The Economic Impact of Slavery

Question 1

What is Nat Turner famous for?

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leading an insurrection of enslaved people

Question 2

In the early and mid-1800s, how did the economies of the Northern and Southern states compare?

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The North was industrialized, while the South was more agricultural.

Question 3

How many insurrections were reported in the South before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln?

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about 250

Question 4

Which was the most important cash crop in the South in the 1800s?

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cotton

Question 5

Before the introduction of new agricultural technology during the Industrial Revolution,

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work on Southern plantations was done by hand, which limited how much cotton could be grown.

Question 6

In the early and mid-1800s, much of the Southern economy depended on

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labor of enslaved people.

Question 7

What was the Underground Railroad?

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a secret network of hiding places, routes, people, and safe houses

Question 8

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a free Black woman who contributed to the abolitionist movement by

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publishing poetry and giving anti-slavery lectures.

Question 9

By 1840, how much cotton did the United States produce per year because of changes in technology?

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about 1.3 million bales

Question 10

How did technological innovations in textile mills affect the practice of slavery?

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Faster and cheaper production of cloth raised the demand for cotton plants, which increased the need for enslaved workers on Southern plantations.

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