Inventions
A machine that separated the seed from the fiber of the cotton plant
What is the cotton gin?
A Cotton Kingdom
What is a large area of land where cotton was grown?
Extended Families
What is the idea that grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relatives should be in a closely knit circle?
The creator of the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney?
Nativists
Who are people that wanted to "preserve" America for native white born citizens?
The machine that used morse code to communicate
What is the telegraph?
William Gregg encouraged this by modeling a cotton mill
What is the growth of the cotton industry?
Slave Codes
What are laws to keep the slaves from running away or rebelling?
Henry Blair
Who is a patented seed planter?
The Irish Potato Famine
What is a disease that killed potato crops and caused many Irish immigrants to come to America?
A locomotive
What is a steam powered engine that pulled rail cars?
These were cash crops besides cotton
What is indigo, tobacco, sugar cane, and rice?
Slave Patrols
What are people who questioned and interrogated slaves who were out and about to prevent them from running away?
Van Buren
Who is the president that allowed 10 hour work days for government employees?
A skilled worker
What is an artisan?
Made by Jethro Wood and improved upon by John Deere
What is the iron plow?
Cottonocracy
What are wealthy planters in the south who had political power?
Rich planters, small farmers, and poor whites (Explain your answer to get the points)
What are the types of white people in the south?
Creator of the talking wire and morse code
Who is Samuel F. B. Morse?
The Know-Nothing Party
What is a political party formed by the nativists where they kept what they did secret and when asked about the party they responded "I know nothing"?
A ship that was made for transporting goods quickly
What is a clipper ship or yankee clipper?
Cultivate
What is preparing the land for planting?
The names of two African Americans who led revolts in the South before the civil war
Who are Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner?
Triple Question: Successful African Americans AND the first African American to practice law AND the editor of the first African American newspaper.
1: Who are William Whipper and Henry Boyd?
2: Who is Macon Alley?
3: Who is John Russworm?
BARRON TRUMPS BIRTHDAY
What is MARCH 20 2006???