Vocabulary
Having factories and manufacturing goods
What is industrialized
Henry clay was from this state
What is Virginia
Invented the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney
The name given to the south before the Civil War.
Old South, Antebellum, slavery south
What is antebellum
Argued that the federal government had no right to interfere in the Southern way of life, including slavery.
John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay
Who is John C. Calhoun
The southern economy was based on this
What is farming
This was the nickname given to Henry Clay
What is the Great Compromiser
name two cash crops in the South (out of 5)
What are tobacco, sugar, rice, indigo, and cotton
This group of people owned 20 or more slaves and had about 1,000 acres of land.
Yeoman farmers, Planters, Slaves
What are planters
The state of being enslaved
B _ _ _ _ _ E
What is bondage
Largest cash crop in the south
What is cotton
These two states were the main part of the Missouri Compromise. Which one would be slave and which one would be free?
What is Missouri slave, Maine free
This machine used a system of rollers, metal teeth, and brushes to quickly remove the seed from the cotton bolls.
What is the Cotton Gin
The percentage of workers who worked on farms in the south.
70, 80, 90
What is 80%
One of four ways that slaves resisted their bondage
1. What is breaking machinery or destroying crops
2. Working very slowly pretending not to know how to do things
3. Poisoning their owners
4. Running away to freedom in the North, usually with help from people who opposed slavery
This a cloth that is woven or knit
What are textiles
The number of times Henry Clay ran for President
4, 5, or 6
What is 5
Some historians believe that this man was the true inventor of the cotton gin. Not Eli Whitney
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Nathanael Greene
Who was Nathanael Greene
this is the percentage of people in the south that didn't own slave
76, 82, 71
What is 76%
man that led a revolt in Virginia. It was very bloody. he was a slave himself.
Who is Nat Turner
This type of labor was used in the south
What is slave labor
The main impact of the Compromise of 1820
What is keep a balance between slave and free states
This city, located on the Mississippi River in 1819, became a center for buying, selling, and shipping cotton.
What is Memphis
This group of people owned about 100 acres of land
Poor whites, Planters, yeoman farmers
What are Yeoman Farmers
One of 4 things that slaves could not do under the slave codes
What is
1. Learn to read or write
2. leave owners land without a pass
3. own guns
4. Gather in groups of more than 3