Cotton
What was the main crop grown in the South?
Cotton
What were some of the jobs of a slave?
Working in the fields, cleaning, cooking.
What were slave codes?
rules the slaves had to follow.
Could free African Americans vote in the South?
No
Who was Nat Turner?
man who lead the revolt because he had a vision to kill white men.
Cotton Kingdom
What is a plantation?
A large farm where a large numbers of crops were grown
The South argued slavery was better then the free labor in the North because they did not have to worry about what?
unemployment
What was denied to the African American children that were free?
Schools.
What was the result for African Americans after the Nat Turner revolt ?
Many innocent African Americans were killed.
Who invented the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
The number of slaves went up from 698,000 to what ?
4 million
Why did the South say slavery was better than in the north?
Free labor system
African American Slave families were often kept together because they added up to more slave labor True or False?
False
What was one way Slaves resisted their owners?
Broke tools, Pretended to misunderstand orders,
Messed up orders.
What did the Cotton Gin do?
Removed seeds from the cotton
Where was Slavery mostly extinct?
The North
Slaves had a lot of their African roots such as what?
Music and dancing
An African American who was free could bring a whitemen to trial if they had a good reason. True or False
False
Who did the children slaves belong to if two slaves had children?
The owner of the mother
Eli Whitney created the Cotton Gin in hopes of what?
Lowering the amount of slaves required to grow cotton.
People in the North began insisting slavery should be what?
Banned
What percent of African Americans were free in the South?
6%
Nat Turner's revolt killed 65 white men. True or False
False killed 60
What often happened to the owner of the male slave who had children with a female slave that belong to someone else?
They were killed