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A machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 to remove seeds from short staple cotton; revolutionionized the cotton industry.
what is Cotton gin
A large iron factory that operated in Richmond Virginia in the early to mid 1800s.
what is Tredegar Iron Works
Passing down stories, poems and songs by word of mouth.
what is Oral tradition
A large scale farmer who held more than 20 slaves.
what is Planter
Owners of small farms.
what is Yeomen
A story that often provides a moral lesson.
what is Folk Tales
A region stretching from south carolina to east texas where most US cotton was produced during the mid- 1800.
what is Cotton belt
A large farm usually specialized in growing one kind of crop for profit.
what is Plantation
An enslaved African American preacher in Virginia
what is Nat Turner
A crop broker who managed the trade between southern planters and their customers.
what is Factors
Men hired by farmers and planters to oversee and direct the work of slaves on plantations.
what is Overseer
A system where one person is owned as property by another, forcing them into unpaid labor
what is Slaves
An original, firsthand account or artifact from the time period being studied
what is Primary
Emotional christian song sung by enslaved people in the south that mixed African and European elements.
what is Spirituals
The period between the end of the War of 1812 (around 1815) and the start of the American Civil War in 1861.
what is Antebellum