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Cotton Industry
Cotton Gin
Southern Society
Slavery
Misc.
100
Cotton-producing region that stretched from South Carolina to Texas.
What is the cotton belt?
100
The cotton gin, which removed seeds from short-staple cotton, was invented him.
Who is Eli Whitney?
100
This group held 20 or more slaves and were the wealthiest members of southern society?
What are planters?
100
In this system all field hands work on the same task at the same time, usually from sunup to sundown.
What is the gang-labor system?
100
This fraction describes the amount of southern families that held slaves.
What is 1/3?
200
The northern and oversea industry that rapidly increased the demand for American cotton in the early 1790s.
What is the textile industry?
200
The affect the cotton gin had on cotton production in the South.
What is increased production?
200
This largest social group were owners of small farms, who may or may not have slaves, and worked their fields.
What are yeomen?
200
This slave group often had better food, clothing, and shelter, though they served slaveholders 24 hours a day.
What are house slaves?
200
This iron factory in Richmond, Virginia produced cannons, steam engines, and other products and was one of the most productive in the US.
What is the Tredegar Iron Works?
300
In the South, the first factories were built to produce items for this group.
What is cotton farmers?
300
Long-staple cotton, also called this, grew well only in a few places and was easy process.
What is black-seed cotton?
300
This social group numbered 250,000 people and faced constant discrimination from white southerns.
What are free African Americans?
300
This common method of sale also may have resulted in the separation of slave families.
What is an auction?
300
Enslaved parents told stories with morals, often with clever animal characters, to teach lessons about how to survive under slavery called these.
What are folktales?
400
Crop brokers who often managed the cotton trade in the South.
What are factors?
400
Most southern farmers used these to transport their goods to port cities.
What are rivers?
400
Some slave holders used this to defend the institution of slavery.
What is religion?
400
The strict laws that many southern states passed prohibiting slaves from traveling and becoming literate are generally known as this.
What are slave codes?
400
Slaves often blended aspects of African religions with Christianity and tended to worship in this. "Hey, shut the door, they might be watching."
What is in secret?
500
This is a potential problem with having an economy dependent on one crop as the South did.
What is bad weather/drought?
500
Southerner David Christy said this to be "a profound statesman, and knows what measures will best sustain his throne."
What is king cotton?
500
This was the typical size of a yeomen farm.
What is 100 acres?
500
This helped slaves believe that one day they would be free, helped them endure slavery, and see themselves as equals to whites.
What is religion?
500
The South’s most valued foreign trading partner was this textile industry pioneering country.
What is Great Britain?