King Cotton
This invention by Eli Whitney in 1793 made cotton far more profitable.
What is The Cotton Gin?
This set of laws controlled nearly every part of enslaved people’s lives.
What are the Slave Codes?
This Virginia slave claimed to have visions and led a deadly rebellion.
Who is Nat Turner?
These early roads were made of logs laid side by side.
What were Corduroy Roads?
This famous frontiersman opened Kentucky by creating the Wilderness Road in 1775.
Who was Daniel Boone?
This Northern economic group also became wealthy from cotton, even though slavery existed in the South.
What are Northern Bankers and Shippers?
In 1828, a Kentucky court ruled that a slave was treated not as a person but as this.
What is a Thing (or Property)?
The State in which Nat Turner's rebellion took place.
What is Virginia?
Private companies built these toll roads where travelers paid to use them.
What were Turnpikes?
The State of Indiana's first Governor.
Who was Jonathan Jennings?
Between 1790 and 1820, cotton production increased by this multiple.
What is Ten Times?
This free Black man was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., and enslaved for 12 years.
Who was Solomon Northup?
The religion that most slaves adopted from their masters, but in multiple ways made it their own distinctive practice.
What is Christianity?
This was the first federally funded highway, begun in 1811.
What is the National Road?
This territory, created in 1787, banned slavery and included Indiana.
What was the Northwest Territory?
By 1860, only about this percentage of white southern households owned slaves.
What is 25%?
The year that importing enslaved Africans became illegal.
What is 1808?
About this many white people were killed during Nat Turner’s rebellion.
This canal connected the Hudson River to Lake Erie.
What is the Erie Canal?
Indiana officially became a state in this year.
What is 1816?
Between 1790 and 1860, the enslaved population in the United States grew from about 700,000 to nearly this number.
What is 4 Million?
Two ways Slaves would act in resistance to their masters in the Deep South.
What are (is) (were) (Idk)???
Worked slowly
Pretended not to understand
Broke tools
Ran away
Rebellions
What are Stricter slave laws and inocent slaves were executed?
This nickname was given to the Erie Canal before it became successful.
What was Clinton's Ditch?
The National Road is now called this US Route
What is US Route 40?