Eric Foner Chapter 11 Review

• Explain how important slavery was to the national economy and the emergence of the United States as a great power?

Slaves worked in cotton plantations, and cotton became greater than sugar when it came to crops. The more slaves there were, the more cotton there was, and the more cotton was bought by other countries. This would increase the United States' economy and make it succeed into a great power worldwide.

• Describe slave culture, explaining the similarities and differences among various regions.

Most slaves came from Africa, and it is the place where their religion, and most notably music, emerged. The medicine they provided to their people came naturally, and was known only amongst each of the slaves.

• Why did many white southerners support slavery even when they did not actually own any slaves?

Even though white southerners did not own any slaves, they heavily relied on them because their goal was freedom and the strengthening of their economy. Without the slaves, they were nothing!

• What meanings of freedom were most important to the slaves?

The slaves that were now freed were restricted from nearly everything and everything. They hoped for the right to vote, to own property, or a right that would truly present their freedom in the country.

• What forms of slave resistance were practiced in the American South?

Slave resistance was a form of rebellion. Slaves would tend to deplete or destroy the property of their owners such as plantation products. Slaves were able to rebel physically, if not, violently. Nat Turner’s Rebellion is notable for the slaves killing their masters or oppressors. The overpowering of the Amistad's crew was another rebellion.