This person is known for inventing the Cotton Gin and Interchangeable Parts
Who is Eli Whitney
100
A large-scale farm that specializes in cash crops
What is a plantation
100
These people worked for life with no pay
Who are slaves
100
Harriet Tubman was the leader of this resistance movement
What is the Underground Railroad
100
Stories with a moral
What are folktales
200
This crop had to be cleaned painstakingly by hand, one plant at a time.
What is cotton or the short-staple cotton
200
These were state laws established to determine the status of slaves and the rights of their owners.
What are slave codes (laws)
200
These people worked on small farms with few or no slaves
Who are Yeomen
200
This person led a group of slaves in a plan to kill all the slaveholders and their families in the country
Who is Nat Turner
200
If you worked on this line you were able to focus on one specific task
What is the assembly line
300
This invention worked something like a strainer or sieve
What is the Cotton Gin
300
This is 1/3 of the southern population
Who are slave holders (white planters) (rich white people)
300
Most white men in the antebellum South
Who are nonslaveholding family farmers
300
This was a code for the Ohio River
What is the Jordan River
300
A device that could send information over wires across great distances
What is a telegraph
400
These laws had loopholes which resulted in Whitney making no money from cotton
What is patent laws
400
This industry is what the South relied on the most
What is agriculture (farming)
400
Fewer in number than the North but they were very similar with, mills, schools, and skilled jobs
What is cities or urban life
400
People who wanted to end slavery and helped slaves escape to freedom were called
Who are abolitionists
400
A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation
What is the Transportation Revolution
500
The success of the Cotton Gin helped strengthen this institution in the South
What is slavery
500
It is declared a felony to permit slaves to cross ferries or bridges without their owners' consent in writing, punishment two to five years and liability also to private action.
What are slave codes
500
These people were descendants from the Haitian Revolution or the American Revolution
Who are free African Americans
500
This song was a code from Harriet Tubman to get in the water because slave catchers were on the trail
What is Wade in the Water
500
Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions