Cash Crops
The name of the best selling cash crop in the Southern United States during the 1800s.
What is Cotton?
This machine was invented to speed up the cleaning and processing of raw cotton.
What is the Cotton Gin
Slaves were tasked to do work for this long on an average day.
What is from sun up to sun down? (12-16 hours)
This was the first use of the steam engine for travel.
What is the Steam Boat?
This cash crop was put into pipes and smoked.
Cotton is put through machines and made into this product.
What are textiles
What is 1/3?
Travel by steam boat was perilous for this reason.
What is the engine exploding?
Cash crops were mostly grown on this type of farm.
What is a plantation?
When the demand for cotton goes up in the North, this happens to demand for slavery in the South.
What is increase? (goes up, need more...)
What is to move factory goods?
By the mid 1800s, the Southern United States were growing this much of the country's cotton.
What is 2/3?
This is the reason why early factories were built throughout the Northern States.
What are rivers?
The ways in which slaves resisted or rebelled against slavery.
What are:
Ran away
Practiced Religion
Pretended not to know English
Broke Tools
Armed Rebellion
Slow Work
Expansion of the railroads during the late 1800s allowed Americans to travel to this area.
What is the frontier? (West coast, California, etc...)
This cash crop was used to dye clothing different colors.
What is indigo?
This invention made machines more powerful and not rely on nearby rivers for power.
What is the steam engine
The reason why slave owners wanted to dehumanize their slaves.
What is to treat them less than human, so slaves would believe they were less than human?
What were steam locomotives?