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=**Adrien Persac Plantation Painting**=  - This picture, painted by Adrien Persac, is titled " //**Shadows on the Teche, Bayou Side-view **//**. **" It depicts the view of the back of a Louisiana plantation house, looking on from the bayou. Persac was commissioned to paint a few of the best houses in the region. In 1858, Persac made a map that showed all the plantations that went along the Mississippi River from Nachez to New Orleans.

A. A plantation house B. A river C. High class people on the river banks D. None of the above
 * In Adrien Persac's "Shadows on the Teche," what is being depicted in the painting?**
 * E. All of the above**

=**Cotton Kingdom**=

--- --  - The term //Cotton Kingdom// refers to the cotton-producing region in the South, before the Civil War. After the Revolutionary War, the North and South took two different approaches to tackle the economy and society. While the North industrialized and leaned towards equal rights, the South took a rather different course of action. In the south, tobacco revenue rapidly decreased. Because of this, Southerners turned to cotton as their main cash crop. The principle characteristic of the Cotton Kingdom was the presence of slaves all over the South. - As white Virginian and South Carolinian settlers moved west, more and more cotton plantations emerged. Since slaves were essentially free labor and therefore, efficient; they were the main reasoning behind the mass production of cotton. This mass production of cotton was fast, but not as fast as it could be. The cotton industry had not yet peaked at its highest potential. Along came Eli Whitney in 1793 with his invention, the cotton gin. The cotton gin did the work of 50 slaves, much faster. Instantaneously, the cotton gin made a huge difference in the Cotton Kingdom. Cotton production was much greater, plantation owners profited greatly, the economy boomed (in a good way), more settlers moved to the South, and most importantly, there were more slaves. As the cotton economy rose, so did the slave population. More slaves meant more opposition to slavery, itself. However, politicians noticed that the cotton brought more people to the South. More people, meant more states. More states, meant more representation than the North in the Senate. Going by this logic, there was a plan to reject every law made to abolish slavery.

A.1801, Benjamin Franklin B. 1794, Eli Whitney C. 1768, Thomas Jefferson E.1784, Thomas Jefferson
 * What year was the cotton gin introduced, and who was its inventor?**
 * D. 1793, Eli Whitney**

=**Stephen Duncan**= - Stephen Bingaman Duncan was one of the richest, most influential slave owners of the late 1800s. Before he entered the cotton industry, Duncan was a wealthy doctor and a Capitalist politician. As he was studying to become a doctor, he grew an interest in cotton growing. So, three years after his studies ended, he decided to turn the lands he owned in - Issaquena County, Mississippi- including Homochitto, Carlisle, Holly Ridge, Oakley, Reserve, Duncannon, Middlesex, and Elleslie- into cotton plantations. Since he owned so many plantations, obviously he owned many slaves too. Therefore, around 1860, Stephen Duncan owned about two thousand slaves, making him the largest slave owner of that time. Since the cotton economy grew larger and larger each year, so did Stephen Duncan's immense wealth.

- was a rich and powerful slave owner who owned  --- in Mississippi. A. Maunsel White. . . . . cotton plantations B Stephen Douglas. . . . . . . tobacco plantations C. Stephen Duncan. . . . . . tobacco plantations D. Maunsel White. . . . . . peanut plantations
 * E. Stephen Duncan. . . . . cotton plantations**

=**Isaac Franklin**= - When he was 21, Isaac Franklin entered the trading business world with his older brothers. From working on a trading flatboat, Franklin got the idea of working in the slave trade. So, he partnered with his nephew, J ohn Armfield, to make what gradually became the largest domestic slave trade in the South. Their slave trade was named after their surnames, //Armfield & Franklin.// Even though slavery was (and still is) extremely crooked and dishonorable, Franklin was known for his more "humane" approach to the slave trade. He made a point to try to be honest, keep slave families together, and treat slaves humanely. To some, Franklin was seen as the "king" of the slave trade.

- After he retired from the slave trade in 1835, Isaac Franklin pursued the planting occupation. He owned several plantations and hundreds of slaves. On his plantations, he raised cotton, tobacco, cattle, and thoroughbred horses. He had six cotton plantations, that altogether were approximately 8,700 acres, in Louisiana. On his 2,000 acre plantation near Gallatin is where he raised his tobacco and animals. After Franklin died, his wife Adelicia inherited his Fairvue plantation so that she could turn it into Franklin Institute, a private school for children in his family and other poor children in the area.

B. //John- Franklin// //C. Frank-Field Slave Trade// //D. Slaves Are People Too, but the Trading Kind Co.// //E. Franklin and Sons//
 * What was the name of the slave trading company that Isaac Franklin owned with his nephew?**
 * A. //Armfield & Franklin//**

=**Maunsel White**= - At thirteen years old, Maunsel White immigrated to Louisville, Kentucky in 1783 from Ireland. During the War of 1812, White became acquainted with Andrew Jackson Even beyond the war, Jackson and White remained lifelong friends. So he became Andrew Jackson's cotton factor (a person who sold the crops for a planter) after the war until 1845 when Jackson died. During that time, White had also eventually founded his own cotton factor business, //Maunsel White & Company//. Along with cotton, he sold sugar, molasses, tobacco, corn, and pork. - By 1845, White retired from his company to focus on growing sugar cane on his plantations. His most important plantation, Deer Range, was also where he lived. Deer Range was always modernized with the newest technologies and techniques. Two hundred slaves worked on Deer Range alone. That made White a large slave owner, seeing as he owned several large plantations. Nevertheless, Maunsel White claimed to have disfavored the slave trade itself. Although other records show him saying that the slave trade was necessary for the South to thrive.

A. Parker Farms B. Good Wit Plantation C. Fairvue E. Black and White-People and Cotton
 * What was the name of Maunsel White's most important and productive plantation?**
 * D. Deer Range**

=**John Burnside**= - John Burnside was an Irish immigrant who came over to the U.S. as a child. He found a job with Andrew Beirne, who later set him up to be partnered with his son. After a while, Burnside eventually worked his way up and became very wealthy. He purchased the 98,000 acre Houmas House Plantation for $1 million in 1857. And with that, he started to grow sugar- lots and lots of sugar. Burnside quickly became the largest sugar producer in the nation. With all the money he got from all the sugar he produced, John had a railroad built in 1862 to take his products directly to market. It was known as "The Sugar Cane Train." This, unsurprisingly, just brought him even more money. John Burnside died a very rich man, having owned ten of the most valuable plantations in the nation.



B. Dumas House C. Sweet Caroline D. Sugar Caning E. Candy Mountain
 * What is the name of the 98,000 acre plantation that John Burnside owned?**
 * A. Houmas House**

- Sir Walter Scott was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time. Some famous titles include //Icanhoe, Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian, and the Bride of Lammermoor// //.// During his childhood, he received a full and wholesome education. Connections that he gained through friends led him to meet a famous poet who lent him books and inclined him to want to write. After becoming a lawyer in Edinburgh, he decided to become a serious writer at age 25. He started out with ballads and other poems, brut worked his way to the bigger literary works. Scott's writing style were very unique and talented. Much of his literary work reflected the society of the current time period in which he was writing. The values mentioned in his stories would influence readers to want to feel the same.
 * Sir Walter Scott**

A. 26 B. 42 C. 19 E. 97
 * At what age did Sir Water Scott begin writing professionally? **
 * D. 25 **