Life as a Slave
Work of a Slave
Demand
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Vocabulary
100
Where did the people who became slaves originally come from?
Africa
100
What was the hardest job for a slave?
Field work
100
What do you call a crop you sell for money?
Cash crop
100
What did the cotton gin remove from cotton?
Seeds
100
What was the name of the machine that Eli Whitney invented?
Cotton Gin
200
What kind of homes did slaves live in?
Small one or two room cabins
200
Who owned the slaves? *Hint: Grace
Plantation Owner
200
What was South Carolina's main cash crop?
Cotton
200
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
200
Who was the man who watched slaves work?
Overseer
300
What's one way slaves could get extra food?
Hunting, fishing, or planting a garden
300
Who was the man who made sure slaves were working in the fields? *Hint: Ricardo
Overseer
300
Who did South Carolina sell their cotton to? *Hint: It's a country
England
300
After the cotton gin was invented, did planters plant more cotton or less cotton?
More cotton
300
What was the language slaves invented that plantation owners didn't understand?
Gullah
400
Slaves couldn't TALK when they were working in the fields. How did they communicate?
They sang songs.
400
Name one job a slave might have besides working in the fields.
Cook, blacksmith, potter, house servant, ironsmith, brick maker,...
400
What do textile mills make?
Clothes
400
True or False: After the cotton gin was invented, fewer farmers wanted to plant cotton.
False
400
BONUS: What does "toted" mean in this sentence? "I toted salt to the big house."
Carried
500
Name one thing slaves weren't allowed to do.
read, write, leave the plantation
500
How old were children when they started working in the fields?
8 years old
500
Name one thing cotton can be used for.
Clothes, jeans, cotton balls, ...
500
Name one way the cotton gin affected slaves.
Slaves had to do more hard work, more slaves were brought to America,...
500
What do you call a fixed amount of food. *Hint: Slaves got these once a week and they had to last them the whole week.
Ration
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