HIST 2061 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Nat Turner, Charles Cutler Torrey, Upland South
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Cotton the slave economy (between 1811-91: east coast to texas, spreads into mexican territory, trail of tears, 1830s: cherokee, chickasaw, choctaw, creek, seminoles sent to. 1: over 4,000 of the 17,000 cherokees rounded up may have dies of disease, malnutrition, dehydration, and exhaustion, oklahoma slavery- start using indians as slaves, 1860: 7,000 slaves (14% of the population) Slave owners sell slaves further south to avoid them escaping: selling slaves towards the south is a punishment. Anti-slavery movement 1833-1850: violence of racism, children profit, children are sold off, when slave owners want to make a. 3: slaves manage to reproduce, even though the infant mortality rate, about 1 slave child dies for every 2. In order to ensure the life of the slaves, they give the mother of the child a month after the birth to relax. Immigrants, roman catholics, job competition: by 1840s, prejudice again europeans specifically the roman catholics.
