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slavery Before the 1793 invention of Eli Whitney's cotton gin _____ was a dying business wildly profitable and easier After the gin was invented, growing cotton became what? the south Who produced more than half of the world's supply of cotton? 100 In 1850, only about 1733 families owned more than____ slaves each widened The Southern aristocrats _____ the gap between the rich and poor and hampered public-funded education by sending their children to private schools Sir Walter Scott autho of the Ivanhoe King Cotton The dominance of _____ likewise led to a one-crop economy whose price level was at the mercy of world conditions. outranked Even the slaveless whites defended the slavery system beacuse they all hoped to own a slave or two some day, and they could take perverse pleasure in knowing that, no matter how bad they were, they always _____ Blacks. Revolutionary War In the upper south, these Blacks were descended from those freed by the idealism of the _____ Irish Northern Blacks were usually hated by who? natural reproduction the slave increase was mostly due to what? investment Slaves were an _____, and thus were treated better and more kindly and were spared the most dangerous jobs Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin hard work and no civil or political rights Slave life varied from place to place, but for slaves everywhere life meant _____ and _____ Christian Africans also mixed the _____ religion with their own native religion The American Dream Slaves had no dignity, were illiterate, and had no chance of achieving what? Black revolts Whites were afraid of these and had to degrade themselves American Colonization Society Founded for the purpose of shipping blacks to America Native born African American In 1860, almost all slaves were not African, but _____ Second great awakening Provided support for abolitionism in the 1830s Charles Grandison Finney Preached against slavery and wrote the pamphlet "American slavery as it is" William Garrison Published first edition of The Liberator Sojourner Truth Fought for black emancipation and womans rights Fredrick Douglass Greatest black abolitionist "gag resolution" Passed by southern house members,required antislavery appeals to be tabled without debate Resented Southerners ______ the flood of propaganda in the form of pamphlets drawings ect. Southern cotton Northern factories depended on this to make goods.