Chap 13

  • demand for american cotton increased rapidly

  • Toussaint L'Ouverture's Haitian Revoultuion

  • The cotton gunis perfected

  • one third of white southerners owned slaves

  • most slaves become christians

  • First american steam powered sawmill is built

  • Congress made bringing slaves in U.S illegal

  • southern primary crop is corn

  • Nat Turners Rebellion

  • States strengthen their slave codes

  • Tredgar Iron Works is assembled

  • Georgia man wrote I desire above all things to be a farmer

  • Henry Hammond declard Cotton is King

  • cotton increased from 2 million pounds to a billio pounds

  • Lucy Breckinridge was married by arrangements