a period that comes before a major war, especially the American Civil War

a "father-like" attitude towards others based on a belief that someone else incapable of caring for themself

to reassign or redistribute resources or political power in a different way

allowed a measure of independence for slaves by providing them time to do their own work once their work for the plantation was completed for the day; common in sea islands and coastal plantations

slaves worked from dawn to dusk under constant supervision of an overseer or slave driver; much harsher than the task system; common in the upcountry plantations

invented the cotton gin

a machine that could clean up to 50 pounds of cotton a day; made the southern US the biggest exporter of cotton in the world.

the ambition for wealth and status through plantation agriculture-it helped unite lowcountry and upcountry of SC by distributing wealth and status.

Restructured the SC state government to base representation on population. Gave the Upcountry the same representation as the Lowcountry.

_____ kept cotton prices low, which not only benefited the South, but helped sustain the economy of the North with its textile mills and Britain, the largest importer of Southern cotton.

Masters and slaves interacted with each other through "_____" which means masters asserted power to various degrees while slaves found ways to comply partially or resist indirectly.

They were under constant suspicion; the Negro Seaman's Act prevented them from interacting with black sailors from the North. They were also required to have a white guardian to avoid being sold into slavery.

A free black man in Charleston who was hanged for planning a slave revolt along with 22 other men.

Beginning in 1820, only the SC _____ could grant a slave freedom.

SC had more slaveholders than any other state; but most South Carolinian's lived on small farms and did not own any _____.

Plantations were _____ communities.

Most slave owner's in SC owned fewer than _____ slaves.

During colonial times ______ was the basis of society in South Carolina.

By 1860, _____ _____ had the highest percentage of slaveholders in the nation

Most South Carolinians lived on family, or _____, farms

The majority of slave owners in SC owned only 1 or 2 slaves and often _____ _____ their slaves in the fields.

International slave trade was outlawed in 1808. The slave population continued to grow in antebellum SC because of _____, not slave trade