Life on the Farm
The Cotton Industry
Types of Farmers
African American Life
Transportation
100
The person that was responsible for the slaves in the fields.
What is the Overseer
100
The man who invented the Cotton Gin in 1793.
What is Eli Whitney
100
Had thousands of acres of land and a plentiful amount of slaves.
What is Plantation Owner
100
Lead a brief, violent rampage in Southhampton County, Virginia. He and his followers killed around 55 whites.
What is Nat Turner
100
What farmers depended on to ship their goods by.
What is Natural Waterways
200
Travel often to make fair deals for their cotton.
What is what the owner of a plantation would do
200
This grew greatly in the North, but slowly in the South because of the craze for cotton.
What is manufacturing
200
Farmer who owned 50-200 acres and grew crops to trade with local merchants or to keep.
What is Yeoman
200
Teaching slaves to read or write was a crime, slaves couldn't gather in groups, and slaves couldn't leave their plantation without a pass.
What is Slave Codes
200
_____ were short, local, and not linked together.
What is Southern railroads
300
_____ would take others in after being split apart from their family.
What is Extended family members
300
Where there was high demand for cotton.
What is Europe
300
-Plantation owners -yeoman -tenant farmers -rural poor
What is Southern farmers, greatest to least
300
A network of "safe houses" in which runaway slaves could go to to hide, have shelter and have food.
What is Underground Railroad
300
Only east to west; vice versa.
What is the way that Southern railroads went
400
Slaves would ______ and ______ to protest to their owners in a way where they wouldn't be in trouble.
What is work slower and break tools
400
What was needed after the rise of cotton
What is slavery
400
Rented land from property owners
What is Tenant Farmer
400
A slave who broke away from her plantation and became a widely-known conductor of the Underground Railroad
What is Harriet Tubman
400
Small growth in cities and industry
What is result of lack of railroads
500
Person who would take care of the house and surrounding buildings on a plantation.
What is the owner's wife
500
Cotton and rice was grown here.
What is the Deep South
500
Stubborn, independent people, who were looked down upon by many. Yet, they were proud of their ability to provide for their families.
What is Rural Poor
500
A slave, who, like Harriet Tubman, successfully escaped to the north and became an African American leader.
What is Frederick Douglass
500
This was scarce or poorly built in the South
What is Canals
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