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The "time before the Civil War"
What is "antebellum"?
Most crops like cotton were sold in this city
What is Charleston?
Planting cotton on the same land year after year will do this.
What is wear out the soil?
The antebellum class of people who were the most wealthy
What is the elite class?
The new cash crop
What is cotton?
Farmers used these as transportation to get their crops to cities.
What are rivers?
Many planters would do this to their crops to save the soil.
What is rotate their crops?
The class of people who had the hardest lifestyle
What is the Enslaved African Americans?
The person who invented a machine to help remove cotton seeds
Who is Eli Whitney?
Man-made waterways that connect one river to another.
What are canals?
He started a textile mill in South Carolina to help people find another way to make a living.
Who is William Gregg?
The class of people who were teachers, merchants, and lawyers
What is the middle class?
The cotton gin encouraged plantation owners to
What is "plant more cotton"?
A new form of transportation that traveled on tracks.
What are trains?
The textile mill will turn
What is cleaned cotton into fabric?
These people must pay taxes yearly to maintain their lifestyle
Who are Free African Americans?
Plantation owners made a lot of money and said
What is "Cotton is King"?
The first train in South Carolina
What is "The Best Friend of Charleston'?
William Gregg built a new town around the textile mill
What is Graniteville?
The class of people who worked hard with the help of family to maintain their way of life
What is the Independent Farmers?