Cotton Plantations And Slavery.

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In what century and where in the USA were plantations set up?
In the 17th century and in the South of the USA.
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What three things would be harvested in plantations?
Tobacco, sugar and cotton.
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Why was it that many people were needed to harvest the crops in plantations?
As they were labour intensive crops.
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At first, who was the plantation workforce mostly made up of?
Indentured servants.
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Who replaced the indentured servants in plantations?
African slaves.
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How did the plantation owner get the African slaves to work on their plantation in the USA?
Via the Atlantic Slave Trade.
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Why would indentured servants work on the US plantations?
As they were given FREE passage to America from various overseas locations.
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In what century was tobacco more profitable than cotton?
In the 18th century.
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How were the thousands of cotton fibres separated from the seeds?
By hand.
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Why did demand for cotton in Britain increase during the 19th century? (2.)
As this was the time of the Industrial Revolution, which meant that cotton could be produced quicker.
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When and who invented the mechanical cotton gin in the USA?
Eli Whitney in 1793.
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What did the mechanical cotton gin do?
It separated the cotton fibres from the seeds mechanically.
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What did the mechanical cotton gin allow planters to do?
To expand their cotton production.
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What did the expansion of the cotton industry do slavery and why?
It increased it; a larger workforce was then needed.
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Explain the reaction between the expansion and cotton and westward expansion.
People needed morel and to establish plantations on, which meant that they went west to do this.
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What did cotton do to the economy in the south of America?
It made it reliant on it.
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Why did the south become dependent on slavery?
As their economy relied on cotton.
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Why was it odd that MOST southerners saw slavery as a way of life?
As there was a only a small number of of wealthier southerners who owned slaves an plantations.
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What did MANY Southerners call slavery?
Their peculiar institution.
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What did MANY white Americans see black Africans as?
Inferior to themselves.
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Give two things that were a cause of planters wrongly believing that black Africans were their property.
They had no rights and no freedom.
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Why did slaves have poor living conditions on the plantations?
As the planter would spend little money on their living conditions, to maximise their profits.
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Give four features of an African slave's life.
Starvation, hard labour, long hours and living in small and poorly built cabins.
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Give two words to descirbe the treatment of African slaves.
Inhumane and cruel.
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What two things would plantation owners do to disipline the slaves they "owned"?
By whipping and beating.
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What tradedy was common to happen to female slaves?
Sexual abuse.
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When was Frederic Douglass born onto a plantation?
In 1818.
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What two things did Douglass do for himself?
He escaped to the North (where slavery was banned) and he taught himslef hpw to read and write.
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What has Douglass done for modern historians? (2.)
He wrote an autobiography, which is a source of historical events and treatment on the plantations.
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Give four passive ways, in which, the African slaves would reist the rule of the white Americans over them.
By singing songs from Africa, by praying (showing their humanity), slow working and damaging plantation property and machinery.
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How would slave "owners" keep "their" slaves in ignorance?
By not allowing them to read or write.
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How many frost-free days would there have to be for the cotton gin to function in the USA?
200 days.
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How many bales of cotton could be produced in 1790?
3,000.
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How many bales of cotton could be produced in 1860?
4 million.
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By 1840, how many miles up the Mississippi Valley had the cotton kingdom gone?
More than 1,000 miles.
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By 1860, what was the leading cotton state?
Mississipi.
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How many dollars was the USA making in agriculture in 1825?
67 million.
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How many dollars was the USA making in agriculture by 1860?
333 million.
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