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The Age of Reform
Geography Activity 
CHAPTER 
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Holt World History: The Human Journey 
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Geography Activities
THE SLAVE TRADE IN THE UNITED STATES
By the mid-1800s the internal slave trade was flourishing in the southern UnitedStates.Two factors fueled this trade:the abolition ofthe African slave trade in 1808 andthe westward expansion ofplantation agriculture.As a result,thousands ofenslavedAfrican Americans were forcibly removed to new plantations on the southern frontier.The map below shows the main slave trade routes and principal agricultural regions of the South in 1860.Examine the map,and answer the questions that follow.
Southern Agriculture and the Slave Trade, 1860
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Geography Activities
1.
What crops are shown on the map? Where was rice grown?
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What major slave trade centers are shown? What slave trade center was in Texas?
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In what two ways were enslaved people likely to be moved from Petersburg,Virginia,to Mobile,Alabama? How were they probably moved from Memphis,Tennessee,toNew Orleans,Louisiana?
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On what kind ofplantation would a slave probably have worked near Frankfort,Kentucky? Ifthat person were taken to Baton Rouge,Louisiana,on what kind of plantation would he or she probably have worked?
5.
How does the map indicate the western expansion ofplantation agriculture?
Critical Thinking: Movement
Why might southern slaveholders have been willing to sell their slaves for relocation tonew areas? What impact might the internal slave trade have had on enslaved AfricanAmericans?
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