Slave Revolts• Denmark Vessey - Free Af-

Am carpenter and preacher. Planned a huge slave uprising near Charleston

• Nat Turner - led a violent slave result in Virginia soon after Vessey. Killed 60 whites in the area.

Southern Economy• Despite the plantation stereotype, the South was, in

reality, a complex region. Large slaveholders were extremely rare. However, although large slaveholders were few in number, they owned most of the South’s slaves.

• Slave ownership was relatively widespread. About 1/3 of all southern white families owned slaves. Slave owners were diverse. A few were African American, mulatto, or Native American; one-tenth were women; and more than one in ten worked as artists or merchants rather than as farmers or planters. Few led lives of leisure or refinement. The average slaveowner lived in a log cabin rather than a mansion and was a farmer rather than a planter.

Southern Economy• Planters and wives had to work hard to earn

wealth; only a small amount were wealthy

• Markets were far away – most Southerners lived on corn and pork

• Slaves were encouraged to be Christian. Many slaves kept their culture through family ties and story-telling.

• Yeoman farmers – small, poor farmers who live off their land and resources

Market Revolution• Reduced the cost

of manufactured products

• Farmers bought farm machines

• Families now bought cloth at markets

Rush-Bagot Agreement• Treaty between U.S. and Great

Britain after the War of 1812

• Limited the number of armed ships in the Great Lakes

Missouri Compromise• Designed by Henry Clay• Admitted Missouri as a slave state and

Maine as a free state

Slave Revolts• Denmark Vessey - Free

Af-Am carpenter and preacher. Planned a huge slave uprising near Charleston

• Nat Turner - led a violent slave result in Virginia soon after. Killed 60 whites in the area.

Know-Nothings• Nickname for the American Party –group

favored native-born Americans)

• Said “I know nothing” when asked about

activities against immigrants.

Embargo Act of 1807• Forbid shipment of American goods to

foreign ports.• Result of British attacks at sea. Did not last

long due to $$ lost by America.

• Francis Cabot Lowell – Businessman & factory owner who pioneered the employment of women.

• Lowell Girls – Single ladies who worked at Lowell’s factories. Paid less than men but could live in company boardinghouses and had social events.