HIST 2061 Midterm: Mid Term (got 93% on the test)
Document Summary
Slaver expansion & opposition: cotton and the slave economy, east coast to texas, trail of tears, 1830s: cherokee, choctaw, creek, seminoles sent to oklahoma, over 4,000 of the 17,000 cherokees rounded up may have died of disease, malnutrition, dehydration and exhaustion, oklahoma slavery, 1860: 7,000 slaves (14% of the population) Expansion of slavery: 1790 1860: ~698,000 3. 9 million (us slave population growth, southern slaveholder slave power conspiracy, concentration 36 4. 7, slave labor, 55% southern slaves cultivate cotton 50% of the us export market at this point it"s the whole country not just the south that is dependent on cotton, ms & al statehood via slavery, more slaves than free people, just because of the mass importation of slaves, slave prices/ 1800(1830 60, skyrockets which adds to the drop of white slave owners, sell slaves from older slaves states to new cotton states, domestic slave trade, families escape, punishment, crop shifts, children.
