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People
Industrial Revolution Inventions
Southern & Slave Society
Southern Economy
100
Owners of small farms.
Who are yeomen?
100
This man's cotton gin revolutionized the cotton industry and gave new life to southern agriculture.
Who is Eli Whitney?
100
This allowed coded messages to be sent long distances over wires.
What is the telegraph?
100
These people were crop brokers who managed the trade between southern planters and their customers.
Who are factors?
100
These are crops, such as cotton, that are grown for pure profit.
What are cash crops?
200
Cloth.
What are textiles?
200
This man designed the first commercial steamboat, named the Clermont.
Who is Robert Fulton?
200
This device used a series of wire teeth and brushes to remove seeds from cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
200
Although a small percentage of the Southern population, this group of people had the most political power.
Who are planters?
200
This state became the center of the sugar industry in the United States.
What is Louisiana?
300
A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel.
What is Transportation Revolution?
300
This woman founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association.
Who is Sarah G Bagley?
300
Cyrus McCormick allowed people to use credit to buy this invention.
What is the mechanical reaper?
300
These served as the center of social life for free African Americans.
What are churches?
300
This was the only iron works in the South.
What is Tredegar Iron Works?
400
Region stretching from South Carolina to Texas which grew most of the country's cotton.
What is the Cotton Belt?
400
This man's slave rebellion resulted in the deaths of 60 whites and over 100 slaves.
Who is Nat Turner?
400
This man invented a steel plow blade.
Who is John Deere?
400
Some wealthy Southerners used this to justify their position in society and slavery.
What is religion?
400
Cotton accounted for this fraction of America's exports.
What is one half?
500
These morality stories were told to slave children to teach them how to survive under slavery.
What are folktales?
500
This southern politician declared to Congress that "Cotton is king!"
Who is James Henry Hammond?
500
Richard Arkwright invented this, helping to revolutionize the textile industry.
What is the waterframe?
500
This set of laws prohibited slaves from traveling, reading or writing.
What are slave codes?
500
This person pushed for greater variety in Southern crops.
Who is James D. B. DeBow?