KNES 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Wilmot Proviso, Nat Turner, Cotton Gin

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: KNES 360
• Professor: marc Rogers

Document Summary

Discussion #4: causes of the civil war, due to cotton"s profitability and the invention of the cotton gin, the southern economy depended on cotton and slaves (to increase the number of plantations for cheap labor). On the contrary, the northern economy depended on various industries so they had to buy cotton and convert it to products. States citizens even if they had lived in free states before: when abraham lincoln won the election and became the 16th president of the united. States, 11 southern states formed their own nation called the confederate states of. Virginia: carpetbagger: an outsider who pretends to be an insider and takes advantage of a group by joining only for his/ her own benefit. This term was given to people with less education who could carry all their possessions in a small bag by people who opposed the. Ex: some northerners moved to the south to take advantage of the southerners" unstable financial and political conditions.