Slideshow 4 Goal 1

1. Social Struggles in the
Federalist Era
Women, landless farmers,
African Americans, wage earners
and Native Americans

2. The Economy of the South
 Tobacco
 Rice
Paddies
 Sugarcane
 Biggest…cotton

3. Cotton on the Roadside, Cotton in
the Ditch, We all picked the cotton
but we never got rich!
 1793,
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
(engine)
 quickly and efficiently combed the seeds out
of cotton bolls

4. Cotton is King!
 1860,
four million bales annually
 two-thirds the total exports for US
 strengthened slavery
 Demand for slave labor skyrocketed

5. Class in the South
 Planters:
owned the larger plantations,
slaveholders, dominated the economy and
political systems, minority
 Yeomanry: majority, held few slaves if any
 Rural Poor: few, lived on land too barren for
farming
 African Americans: made up 37% of southern
population

6. Slavery
 Task
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specific jobs
once completed they had the rest of the day to
themselves
 Gang
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system:
System:
sun up to sun down
large plantations
organized into gangs under the supervision of a
driver (slave)

7. Slave Codes
 Forbade
enslaved men and women from
owning property or leaving a slaveholders
premises without permission
 Could not carry firearms or testify in court
against a white person
 Banned from learning to read and write
 Merely property

8. African American Culture
 To
cope with the atrocities of slavery, African
Americans formed their own culture
 Songs to pass the long workday or express
hope
 Religion: adopted Christianity but adapted it
to fit their African heritage

9. Resistance
 Work
slowdowns
 Broke tools or set fire to houses or barns
 Try to run away

10. Rebellion

Nat Turner, 1831
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led an armed uprising
believed God had
chosen him to bring his
people out of bondage
killed 50 white men,
women and children.
Tried, convicted and
hung

11. Frederick Douglass

Rose out of slavery to
become a prominent
leader in the antislavery movement

12. Women
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Rights were left out of
the Constitution
Could not vote
own property
hold political offices
Not equals with their
male counterparts
Abigail Adams, wife of
John Adams