3. Slavery
• four million slaves
•worked on tobacco and cotton
plantations, house slaves or
field workers
•gang system
task system
•chance to become free was minimal
6. The Secession
South Carolina: 12/20/1860
Mississippi: 01/09/1861
Florida: 01/10/1861
Alabama: 01/11/1861 => founding states – Deep South
Georgia: 01/19/1861
Louisiana: 01/26/1861
Texas: 02/23/1861
Virginia: 04/17/1861 slave states which stayed in the Union:
Arkansas: 05/06/1861 Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware,
Tennessee: 05/06/1861 West Virginia
North Carolina: 05/20/1861