Growth of Cotton Industry
Before the American Revolution, the three crops dominated southern agriculture were...
What is tobacco, rice, and indigo.
By 1860, how many free African American lived in the south?
What is more than 250,000.
Often represented slaves in folktales-defeated a stronger animal by outwitting it.
What is a trickster.
crop brokers who often managed the cotton trade in the South
what is factors
My (Ms. Mariah) current age is...
what is 30
The individual who patented the cotton gin in 1793 was...
What is Eli Whitney.
The most prominent social class in southern society.
What is Wealthy plantation families.
The most important aspect of slave communities.
What is family.
emotional songs that mixed African and European music and expressed religious beliefs
What is spirituals
I have two dogs named
What is Star and Luna
The fibers from what two cash crops were used to make rope and sack-cloth?
what is hemp and flax
Name the segments of society that contributed to the economic success of the South. (social classes)
What is planters, yeomen farmers, poor whites, slaves, and free African Americans.
To further control slaves actions many states passed strict... For example: most southern states prohibited education of slaves.
What is slave codes.
stories with a moral, to teach lessons about how to survive under slavery.
what is folktale
I graduated from this university...
What is the University of South Florida
The only factory to produce bridge materials, cannons, and steam engines in the late 1840's.
What is Tredegar Iron Works
The wealthiest members of southern society.
What is the Planters.
A slave from Southampton County, VA, who believed God had told him to end slavery.
What is Nat Turner
area of high cotton production
what is the cotton belt
My middle name...
What is Renee
Became the south's most valued foreign trading partner in the 1850's.
What is Great Britain.
How did wealthy white southerners use their religion to justify their position in society and the institution of slavery?
What is they argued that God created some people, like themselves, to rule others.
All field hands worked on the same task at the same task. This system is called...
What is gang-labor system
a machine that removes seeds from short-staple cotton
what is cotton gin
My first year teaching at Grace Lutheran...
What is 2019.