Growth of the cotton
industry
industry
What were the three crops that attracted the southern agriculture?
Tobacco, rice, and indigo
By what year cotton grew rapidly?
By the mid-19th century
About how many slaves lived in the south in 1860?
About 250,000 African Americans
What are spirituals?
Folk songs that mixed African and European music
and were often religious in nature.
List three things the southern people couldn't do.
Travel, vote & have jobs
Who invented the cotton gin and what year was it invented?
Eli Whitney in 1806
True or False: Cotton grew in large parts in the South so that meant there wasn’t many cotton plantations
False
Fill in the blank:
Most of the slaves lived in the countryside and worked as ————————-.
Paid farmers
What did wealthy white southerners argue?
They argued that God created some people,
like themselves, to rule others.
Fill in the blank:
Agriculture was the ________ of the southern economy, and cotton was king.
heart
What was known as the high production of cotton?
The cotton belt
What happened to the wages of the workers salaries?
The workers salaries dropped.
How did African Americans represent their business?
By letting white southerners represent their business.
How did Rural woman play a role in churches?
Rural women often played volunteer roles in their churches.
How did sickness affect their slavery life?
sickness and poor weather
rarely served as reasons to stop working.
Fill in the blank:
Cotton had a high advantage of becoming a ———crop.
cash
How did cotton transform the southern society?
It greatly increased in slavery
How did white southerners justify the reason for slavery?
Many white southerners used this to justify the reason that slavery could stay.
Who was Nat Turner?
How did his religion play a big role in his life?
Nat Turner was born into slavery in Virginia. As a
child, he learned to read and write and became
an enthusiastic reader of the Bible. He soon
gained a reputation in the local slave community
for his religious beliefs. Enslaved people regularly
gathered in forest clearings to listen to his
powerful sermons.
What was a domestic servant?
(Actual definition) A domestic worker, domestic helper, domestic servant, manservant or menial, is a person who works within the employer's household.
Fill in the blank:
Cotton had a high advantage of becoming a ———crop.
The early 1790s
How did planters influenced the colony's?
When they showed off their mansions, and bragged how wealthy they were.
Did men , women , and children were forced to work whenever their slaveholders demanded to?
( true or false )
True
How did this religion help people in slavery?
(own opinion)
(good response to question= 1 free candy)
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Answer Varies
What was two out of eight things slaves in the south had to do?
Ex: Plantation
Tended