Geography
What land forms did the Southerners have?
Marshes/ Appalachian Mountains
What did the Southerners grow to make money?
Cotton
What was the main transportation the Southerners used?
River/Boat
How many different levels on the social structure?
3
What were some crops grown in the South? (List 2)
Rice, Indigo, Tobacco, and Cotton
What did the South want more of?
Slaves and Land
What were some transportation vehicles the Southerners used. (List 2)
Trains, Boats, and Wagons
What group made up most of the population in the South?
Poor White people
Where the South mostly flat or had hills.
Flat
Did the plantations owners take free people and enslave them? (True or False)
True
Why did the southern towns use Rivers?
For trade and traveling fast down ocean water rivers.
What group of people was treated the worst?
Black Men and Women
How long were the long growing seasons?
They were throughout spring and summer.
Eli Whitney
What was the downside of trains?
They were too expensive
There was many rich white people in the South. (True or False)
Where was rice grown?
What was the problem and bad effect the Cotton Gin gave?
It made enslaved people work harder and work longer days.
Why did the Southerners use riverboats?
They lasted longer and kept shipping products safe from wreckage.
Did all white people go to school in the South. (True or False)
False