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Crops
Important events
Slavery
100
Cotton
What is a very important resource grown and harvested by slaves to sell to the British?
100
Eli Whitney.
What is the persons name whos invention changed the way cotton was harvested?
100
Cotton.
What is the main crop of the South?
100
1790
When was Georgia one of the poorest states in the Union?
100
29,264.
How many slaves were there in 1790?
200
Georgia
What is the state known as "Empire state of the South"?
200
Farmers.
What is the most common job in Antebellum life?
200
Slaves.
who were the people who did most of the work on plantations?
200
1850
When was Georgia doig extremely well?
200
99% were enslaved.
How many black Georgias were enslaves?
300
Planters
What is the people who owned the most land?
300
Planters?
What is the highest social class in Antebellum life?
300
Over 400,000 bales.
What is the amount of cotton grown in 1860?
300
3,500.
How many free blacks were there at the end of Antebellum era in Georgia.
400
1000 bales of cotton.
What is the amount of cotton produced in 1790?
400
Yeoman farmers.
What is the middle class of Georgia in Antebellum life?
400
Peanuts.
What is "goober peas"?
400
1793.
Whenn was the cotton gin invented?
400
Yes.
Did slaves contribute to white society besides the work?
500
A well drained topsoil, a growing season of abou 200 days without frost, 25 to 45 inches of rainfall each year, and a dry harvest season.
What is needed to grow cotton far inland?
500
1 in 10 Georgians.
What is the percentages of poor whites.
500
The vast majority of cotton production in Georgia fell within the Black Belt.
Where did the majority of the Georgia cotton come from?
500
Fewer than 3,000 could be classified as planters.
What was the amount of Planters in Georgia in 1860?
500
462,198.
How many slaves were there in 1860?