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Cotton Kingdom
Northern Economy
Getting Around
Geography
Government in the Economy
100
Slavery
What was the form of forced labor of African Americans in the South before the Civil War?
100
mixed economy
What is an economic system in which both agriculture and industry are important?
100
railroad
What used steam engines and tracks to move people and goods across the land?
100
human geographic factors
What are factors related to people like culture, government, language, religion, economy, education, agriculture, and industry?
100
Tariff
What is a tax or duty on an import into a country?
200
cotton gin
What was the invention in the 1790s that seperated the cotton fibers from the seeds?
200
factory
What is the place where machines manufactured products for sale?
200
transportation
What is the movement of people and goods across land and water?
200
region
What is a place that has common human and geographic features?
200
Taxation
What is the government requiring the people to give it money to pay for its operations?
300
economy of the south
What was the economy based on cotton as the cash crop and slavery as the labor system?
300
industry
What is the manufacture and production of goods?
300
steamboat
What was the form of water transportation that used the steam engine to sail up river?
300
physical geographic factors
What are the natural features like landforms, water bodies, topography, soil, atmosphere, climate, plants, animals, and natural resources?
300
Industrial Revolution
What was the change from mostly farming to a society based on industry and manufacturing?
400
Cotton
What was the main cash crop of the South before the Civil War?
400
interchangeable parts
What is replacing a broken part with an exact duplicate of the part?
400
turnpike
What is an all-weather road that is paid for by taxation or tolls on the travelers?
400
population distribution
What is how people are spread out over the land?
400
Protective tariff
What is a tax or duty on an import to protect a domestic industry of a country?
500
plantation system
What is the economic system of a large farm growing cash crops and farmed with slave labor?
500
technology
What is the practical use of scientific discuveries?
500
canal
What was a narrow man-made water way used to transport people and goods?
500
Settlement patterns
What is how people live on teh land and distributed over space?
500
Banks of the United States
What was the lending institution chartered by the United States to regulate money and state banks?