Vocab
Events
Plantation
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100
What removes seeds from cotton?
cotton gin
100
What war, that took place in the 1860's, put an end to slavery?
Civil War
100
Where on the plantation did the planter and his family live?
Plantation house
100
What is the definition of primary?
Main, most important
100
What was the name of African Americans who were not slaves?
Free African Americans
200
What is the cotton belt?
The area of high cotton production.
200
What was the name of the largest slave revolt to take place in the United States.
Nat Turner's Rebellion
200
Where on the plantation did the slaves live?
Slave Cabins
200
What is the name of the laws that restricted the lives of slaves?
Slave Codes
300
What is a spiritual?
Emotional Christian songs that blended African and European music.
300
Who led the largest slave revolt to take place in the United States?
Nat Turner
300
Where was the cotton gin stored?
Cotton ginning shed
300
What is the name of crops that brought in large incomes, and somtimes were not edible?
Cash Crops
300
What was the name of farmers who owned small farms
Yeomen
400
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
400
What was the name of the trade system that brought slaves to America.
Triangular trade
400
Where on the plantation were animals kept?
Stables
400
What were factors?
Crop brokers
400
Name a type of cotton?
green seeded cotton
500
What was one the most productive iron works in the nation that was also located in the South.
Tredegar Iron works
500
What admendment banned slavery in the United States.
13th
500
Where on the plantation did the overseer live?
Overseer's house
500
What were large scale farmers who held 20 or more slaves called?
Planters
500
Who was the South's most valuable trading partner?
GB