To leave or withdraw

Those who were opposed to secession because they thought the Constitution would protect the Southern way of life

Those in South Carolina who favored secession only as a last resort and if other states joined South Carolina

Those in South Carolina who thought leaving the Union was the only way to protect the states way of life

Radicals who thought that leaving the Union was the only answer, another name for secessionists

A political statement that said the federal government should not interfere with states' rights

A system based on slave labor, large farms planted cash crops for profit

The owner of a plantation

Married to plantation master, their jobs included nursing sick slaves, making clothes, and managing the household

A worker hired by a planter to watch over and direct the work of slaves

A trusted male slave whose job was to watch over and direct other slaves

A person who is denied basic rights and freedoms, forced to work on plantations

A social ranking based primarily on economic position and the number of slaves owned

A devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole

South Carolina allowed all white males over the age of 21 to vote

An American inventor who developed the cotton gin

A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney