Industry and Slavery Flashcards
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Came through innovations in travel:
- Railroads
- Steam Ship
- Canals
- Industrial Revolution
- Between 1800-1850(ish)
- During this period, people increasingly bought and sold goods rather than making them for themselves
- The economy became increasingly interconnected
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Market Revolution
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led to the development of a National Economy & facilitate the movement of people & goods
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Effects of the Transportation Revolution
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- Transportation revolution – Erie canal, Steam Boats, Trains
- Decline of subsistence farming
- Clay’s American System: Bank, Tariff, Gov Money for Internal improvements (political strife)
- Mass production / interchangeable parts
-Eli Whitney - Incredibly important!
- Cheaper goods are more readily available
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General Impact of Market Revolution
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- Conflicts between regions: capitalist v. slave
- Growing dependence on cotton in the South
- Interconnected with the North!
- Conflicts within regions: racial, class
- Population / Immigration increase
- Immigrants to the North, not the South
- Inventions!
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The general Impact of the Market Revolution
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A tax on imports
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Tariff
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- AT FIRST, THEY ARE UNSAFE
- UP UNTIL 1930 – PASSENGER CARS ARE CONVERTED CATTLE CARS
- THE TRACKS ARE NOT STANDARDIZED, EACH COMPANY HAS ITS OWN TRACK SIZE
- BUT AS THEY BECAME MORE EFFICIENT, THEY WERE CHEAPER TO BUILD THAN CANALS, THEY COULD CARRY MORE, THEY MOVED FASTER AND THEY COULD GO UP HILLS
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Railroads
6
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SPREAD THE SLAVERY-BASED COTTON KINGDOM IN THE DEEP SOUTH
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Eli Whitney & The Cotton Gin
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- Factories, trade
- Women & children can work in factories, make money
- Middle class emerges
- Lots of infrastructure, railroads, canals, roads, etc.
- Immigrants pouring in (because they can get jobs)– very diverse
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The North
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- Rural, Plantations
- Women & children have little to no opportunity for work
- No opportunity for middle-class
- Very little infrastructure
- Almost no immigrants – only diversity is accounted for by slavery
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The South
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- The 1780s: 1st antislavery society created in Phila.
- By 1804: slavery eliminated from last northern state.
- 1807: the legal termination of the slave trade, enforced by the Royal Navy.
- 1820s: newly indep. Republics of Central & So. America declared its slaves free.
- 1833: slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire.
- 1844: slavery was abolished in the Fr. Colonies.
- 1861: the serfs of Russia were emancipated.
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Southern Slavery–> An Aberration?
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- Primarily agrarian.
- Economic power shifted from the “upper South” to the “lower South.”
- “Cotton Is King!” * 1860→ 5 mil. bales a yr. (57% of total US exports).
- Very slow development of industrialization.
- Rudimentary financial system.
- Inadequate transportation system.
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Antebellum South
11
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- 3rd largest iron producer in the US in 1860
- During the war, it hired enslaved people to produce military goods, engines & tools
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Tredegar Iron Works – Richmond 1837
12
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- SLAVERY IS A VIOLENT SYSTEM OF DEHUMANIZATION
- LABORED FROM DAWN TO DUSK
- MANUAL LABOR – FIELD WORK, LOADING FREIGHT ONTO SHIPS, PREPARING MEALS
- DENIED EDUCATION
- PUNISHMENT IS PHYSICAL BEATING, OR MENTAL ANGUISH
- SEPARATED FROM FAMILIES AS GENERAL PRACTICE & PUNISHMENT
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Moral/Ethical Tension
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- LITERATEENSLAVEDBLACKSMITH WHO PLANNED A LARGE SLAVE REBELLIONIN THERICHMONDAREA IN THE SUMMER OF 1800.
- INFORMATION REGARDING THE REVOLT WAS LEAKED PRIOR TO ITS EXECUTION, AND HE AND TWENTY-FIVE FOLLOWERS WERE TAKEN CAPTIVE ANDHANGED IN PUNISHMENT.
- IT DID NOT WORK
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GABRIEL or GABRIEL PROSSER
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- TAUGHT HIMSELF TO READ THE BIBLE*, THOUGH GOD HAS INSTRUCTED HIM TO LEAD HIS PEOPLE IN THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
- AUGUST 1831 – SOUTH HAMPTON COUNTY, VA
- WANTED TO CAPTURE A NEARBY ARMORY & GAIN WEAPONS
- THEY KILLED APPROXIMATELY 60 PEOPLE BEFORE LOCAL MILITIA CAUGHT THEM*
- TURNER CAPTURED AFTER 6 WEEKS
- HE & HIS ASSOCIATES ARE EXECUTED
- IT DID NOT WORK
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Nat Turner
