South 1
This invention revived the economy of the South
What is the cotton gin?
owners of small farms who lived in the south
What are yeomen?
The person in charge of forced slaves to work, and managing the plantation, was known as the __________.
overseer
True or False
Ancient Greeks and Egyptians kept enslaved people
What is true?
The slave trade led to the _______________________, or the scattering of enslaved Africans all across the New World.
What is African Diaspora?
Northerner who changed the south when he invented the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney?
_______ was central to southern life. One reason was its social impact. Often farm families saw their neighbors only at church functions.
What was Religion?
A folk song that often had a religious connotation was known as a _________________.
spiritual
Virginia slave who planned to gain freedom by killing slaveholders and their families
Who is Nat Turner?
the voyage across the Atlantic that enslaved Africans were forced to endure
What is the Middle Passage ?
nickname for the region that grew most of the country’s cotton crop
What is the cotton belt?
Southern states passed laws that limited the rights of __________ . In some places they could not vote or hold certain jobs. They were not allowed to live where they chose or travel freely.
Who are free African Americans?
Another feature of African American culture was ____________—the passing down of family histories and heritage by word of mouth.
What is oral tradition?
a conductor on the Underground Railroad; Guided passengers from station to station
Who was Harriet Tubman?
a system that helped slaves escape from the South
What is the Underground Railroad?
The cotton gin created a __________ in which farmers grew little else
What is a cotton boom?
Although most of the South focused on farming, some industries, such as the __________ owned by Joseph R. Anderson in Richmond, Virginia, also flourished, producing bridge materials, cannons, steam engines, and other products.
What is the Tredegar Iron Works?
Stories with a moral; a part of this oral tradition;served to encourage slaves that they could survive the hardships of slavery.
What are Folktales?
Africans had already developed some ______ to European diseases. The colonists decided that slaves from West Africa could be the solution to the labor problem.
What is immunity?
organized the Underground Railroad to help enslaved Africans escape. worked for emancipation, or freedom from slavery, for all who lived in the United States.
Who are Abolitionists?
a large-scale farmer who owned more than 20 slaves.
What is a planter?
_____________or the use of scientific methods to improve farming, encouraged southern farmers to rotate the kinds of crops they planted.
What is Scientific agriculture?
_________found a variety of ways to protest their treatment. Some even ran away. But getting all the way North to freedom was filled with dangers and hardships.
Who are Enslaved African Americans?
Some wealthy white southerners attempted to use ______________________________ to justify their position in society and the institution of slavery.
What is Religion?
abolitionist who ran the Liberator newspaper and also helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?