Apush Review

Result of the introduction of the cotton gin:

Slavery was reinvigorated

Weaknesses of the slave plantation system: Politics were run by rich aristocrats; Widened gap between rich and poor; Hampered tax-supported public education, relied on a one-crop economy.

repelled a large-scale European immigration

stimulated racism among poor whites.

Why was Plantation agriculture wasteful? :

its excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled the good earth.

Where was the "Black Belt"? most of the population describe the southern society: Black belt was lower south because have more slaves. Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Southern society: most of the population- poor whites 80%.

Aristocracy, Code of chivalry= protect anyone inferior. The more the north fight the south the more the south must defend for honor.

disliking the individual but liking the race.

Extent of slavery in the south: 1% white families owned 50 or more slaves (plantation owners), 19% owned 50 or less (white yeomen farmers) , 80 % owned no slaves (poor whites, mountain whites)

Describe the attitude towards freed blacks living in the north: discrimination was common .

Uncle Tom's Cabin- by Harriet Beecher Stowe(abolitionist) They feared the seperation of their families, Showed harsh conditions of slaves,

North: saw it as separating cult of domesticity.

Results: Nation is growing further apart, helped start of Civil War, More people refuse to support fugitive slave law & abolitionist group grew.

England: literary success, british people would not accept the government of G. Britian to help the South.

William Lloyd Garrison: abolitionist newspaper publisher, "the