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Wealthy farmers and plantation owners
yeomen
How did the cotton gin lead to a cotton boom in the South?
made cotton easier to process, more cotton was planted
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Crop brokers who often managed the cotton trade in the South
spirituals
What was the role of a planter's wife on a plantation?
raising her children and supervising household slaves
White society in the Antebellum South was made up of what three groups?
poor whites
planters
yeomen farmers
Owners of small farms who made up the largest social class in the South
planters
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
What action was legal for free African Americans living in the South?
Working as skilled artisans
Emotional songs that mixed African and European Music and expressed religious beliefs
factors
What were jobs performed by slaves on plantations?
Clearing land
Picking cotton
Cooking meals
What did Nat Turner do in Virginia in 1831?
Led a slave rebellion
A region of cotton produced areas that stretched from South Carolina to Texas
cotton belt
Why was there a constant need to cultivate more land for growing cotton?
Cotton plants exhausted land of its nutrients, making it useless for growing
What were ways slaves resisted the slave system?
Running away
Working slowly
Damaging equipment