The Cotton Boom
Southern Society
Slavery
Slavery
MISC.
100
How did the cotton gin work
hand cranked the machine and separated the seeds from the cotton
100
A white owner of a small farm
What is a yeoman
100
What advantage did skilled slaves have over unskilled slaves?
They could earn money to buy their freedom
100
What was the effects of Nat Turner's rebellion
Slave codes were toughened
100
Changing the type of plant grown on a given plot each year in order to protect the land from mineral loss
What is crop rotation
200
How did long staple cotton differ from short staple cotton?
It was easier to process
200
Name a duty of a planter's wife
supervising slaves within the household
200
How did planters encourage slave obedience?
Through physical punishment
200
Nat Turner led a group of slaves to kill slaveholders because he?
Believed he was on a mission from god to free the slaves
200
Who cared for planters children?
What is female slaves
300
The area stretching from South Carolina to Texas that grew the most cotton?
What is the cotton belt
300
Some of this group were descendants of refugees from the Haitian Revolution
What is Free African Americans
300
Why were slaves uneducated?
Teaching slaves was prohibited by law
300
What happened to Nat Turner after the rebellion?
He was sentenced to death
300
The first factories in the south produced?
Textiles
400
What was responsible for the increase in the domestic slave trade?
An act of congress banned the importing of slaves
400
Why did many southern cities and states pass laws to limit the rights of freed slaves?
Feared free slaves would encourage slave rebellions
400
Strict state laws that controlled the actions of slaves
What is slave codes
400
Most violent slave uprising in the United States
Nat Turner's rebellion
400
Who had a patent for the cotton gin that was offend ignored?
Eli Whitney
500
What invention revolutionized the cotton industry?
The cotton gin
500
Southern industry faced strong competition from the north which forced them to invest in what?
Land
500
Emotional christian songs sung by slaves
What is spirituals
500
Many southern planters believed that slavery was justified by____________?
What is god
500
crop brokers called _________ arranged for transportation on trading ships.
What is factors
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