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Cotton Gin was patented by Eli Whitney in 1794
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Summer of 1800
-50 armed slaves around Richmond
-Failed to gain control of a main road
to Richmond
-Someone tipped off the white authorities
-Prosser and 25 of his followers were executed -
-Several hundred, poorly armed, slaves march on New Orleans
-U.S. Army troops and state militia stop the march
-More than 60 slaves died
-The heads of the leaders were posted on poles along the Mississippi River as a warning -
Was the most successful artificial waterway ,designed to link the western markets to the eastern manufacturing. It lead to the building of over 3,000 miles of canals by 1840
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-The economy is better balanced
between agriculture, manufacturing
and trade
-The Upper South is becoming less tied
to the plantations and slavery at this time, so slave population makes up only half of the total percent it used to. -
-Turner, a literate field hand, believed
that he saw signs from heaven
calling for vengeance against
white oppressors
-Led a small band of followers
-Killed his owner the first day
-Killed 60 more white people
the following 2 days
-With the help of other slaves, a group of whites captured or killed most of Turner’s group
-Turner hides for 2 months before he is caught and executed along with 30 of his followers
-Panic stricken whites killed 100 other slaves -
-Virginia planter -Promoted the use of Marl -Calcium rich seashell deposits -Neutralized the highly acidic and worn out soil -Called for farmers to plow deeper furrows, rotate crops and to upgrade their breeding stock. Known as the “Father of Soil Science” from his 1843-1860 activism
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part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
