Technology
Communication
People
Economy
Transportation
100
he invented the cotton gin in 1793
Who is Eli Whitney?
100
these people could not communicate while on duty
who are slaves
100
farmers who did not have slaves
What are yeomen?
100
a cost that does not change with an increase or decrease in the amount of goods or services produced
What is a fixed cost?
100
natural means for transporting goods in the South
What are rivers?
200
a machine that quickly and easily seperated cotton fibers from their seeds
What is the cotton gin?
200
songs that African Americans sang, often used to communicate secretly among themselves
What are spirituals?
200
places where children of wealthy plantation owners went six days a week
What are private schools?
200
money used to invest in business
What is a capital?
200
the most popular transportation in the South
What is horseback riding?
300
he invented interchangeable firearm parts
Who is Eli Whitney?
300
laws that restricted slave communication
What are slave codes?
300
African American religious folk songs
What is the spiritual?
300
the main crop in the South
What is cotton?
300
type of transportation that was improving, but was still not widespread in the South (did not usually connect to big cities)
What are railways?
400
invention in the 1840s that allowed Americans to travel up to 10 mph
What is the first locomotive?
400
an easy way to spread information to multiple people fast
What are newspapers?
400
he was a popular religious leader among slaves; an escaped slave
Who is Nat Turner?
400
the ability to buy based on future payment
What is credit?
400
ways of travel using horses (list three)
What are covered wagons, horseback riding, and buggies?
500
technology that, when used in the civil war, hurt the South because of their lack of technological advancements compared to the North
What is the telegraph?
500
easiest, and usually fastest, way of communication in the south (think simple)
What is storytelling?
500
white farmers who rented land and payed in crops as well as cash
Who are tenant farmers?
500
watching and tending to enslaved workers, supervising gardens and plantation buildings, keeping financial records (jobs of who?)
What are jobs of plantation wives?
500
place where transportation needs were met (think trains)
What is a depot?
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