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All About Slaves
100
A ship with sleek hulls and tall sails that "clipped" time from long journeys.
What is a clipper ship?
100
A group of workers with the same skills.
What is a trade union?
100
The man who invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
100
The ability to read and write
What is literacy?
100
The plantation manager that supervised slaves on plantations.
What is an overseer?
200
A new development or invention.
What is innovation?
200
An unfair opinion NOT based on facts.
What is prejudice?
200
Cotton, rice, and sugarcane.
What crops did the Deep South mostly grow?
200
A farmer that owned 50 to 200 acres of land.
What is a yeoman?
200
An African American religious folk song
What is a spiritual?
300
A system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet.
What is Morse Code?
300
An individual who is opposed to immigration.
What is a nativist?
300
The trade of enslaved people among the United States.
What was the Domestic Slave Trade?
300
Farmers who farmed on rented land.
What is a tenant farmer?
300
A law in a Southern state that controlled enslaved people.
What is a slave code?
400
A device that uses electronic signals to send messages.
What is a telegraph?
400
11.4 hours.
What was the average workday for a factory worker?
400
Tobacco, hemp, wheat, and vegetables.
What crops did the Upper South mostly grow?
400
The south had a thin population and schools couldn't spread throughout a wide area.
Why did the South have a low literacy rate?
400
a system of cooperation to aid and house enslaved people who had escaped
What is the Underground Railroad?
500
It cut through hard-packed prairie sod.
What did the steel-tipped plow do?
500
An official authority to do something.
What is a license?
500
Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas.
What states made up the Upper South?
500
Chattanooga, Montgomery, and Atlanta.
What were some cities that grew in the South due to railroads?
500
The slave that taught himself literacy skills and rebelled by killing 55 whites.
Who is Nat Turner?
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