A family of rulers whose right to rule is hereditary.
What is a dynasty?
100
Large expanse of of cotton-producing lands that stretched from the southeastern states across the Gulf Coast states into Texas.
What is the cotton belt?
100
The coastal plain of Carolina and Georgia.
What is low country?
100
Term used for both the plant used to make a dark-blue dye and the name of the dye or color.
What is indigo?
100
Basic laws that governed all natural events, including human social organization and interactions.
What are natural laws?
200
Agricultural products that a produced primarily for profit.
What are cash crops?
200
A period in U.S. history that lasted from after the War of 1812 to just before the outbreak of the Civil War.
What is the antebellum period?
200
Individuals of mixed African and European ancestry.
What is a mulatto?
200
A term that developed in the 17th century to describe fugitive slaves in the Americas.
What is a maroon?
200
Tax calculated on the basis of the number of people residing in a state.
What is per capita tax?
300
The belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits.
What is animism?
300
The individuals and groups that opposed slavery and their activities to end it.
What is abolition movement?
300
The practice of separating people on the basis of race.
What is segregation?
300
Escaped slaves who lived nearby their master's estate.
What is an outlier?
300
To reject or avoid products or dealing with someone or some group, usually used to show disapproval or to force changes in policies or actions.
What is a boycott?
400
Someone who watches over or supervises while someone else works.
What is an overseer?
400
Prejudice towards an entire group often resulting in unfair treatment of those people judged to be different or inferior from those in the majority or in power.
What is discrimination?
400
Fictional relationships created by enslaved Africans intended to help provide mutual support.
What are fictive kin relationships?
400
The modification of a culture as the result of contact with another culture.
What is acculturation?
400
A kind of religious song, usually associated with African Americans and often with themes from the Bible.
What are spirituals?
500
A machine that changed the cotton production industry in the late eighteenth century by removing seeds from raw cotton fibers about 50 times faster than a worker could do by hand.
What is a cotton gin?
500
The idea that government is for and by people, and during the Civil War the opinion of abolitionists that citizens living in the territories should be free of government interference.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
Laws governing the practice of slavery in a given region.
What are slave codes?
500
Advocate of the colonies' separation from Britain.
What is a patriot?
500
The treatment or governing of people in a fatherly manner.