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Growth of cotton industry
Cotton is King
People/Things
Southern Society
Trivia
100
tobacco, rice and indigo
What are biggest crops prior to American Revolution
100
cash crop
What is crop to which plantation owners devoted their time, skill and labor
100
field hand
What is a slave who worked back braking hours in the cotton fields of a plantation
100
planters
What is wealthiest members of Southern Society.
100
Ten years old
What is age of which many field hands began to work
200
crop that saved and transformed southern economy
What is cotton
200
cotton belt
What is area of high cotton production from the South as far west as Texas.
200
Catherine Greene
What is name of the owner of a plantation Whitney used to perfect his cotton gin with short staple cotton
200
planters primary concern
What is raising crops and supervising slave labor
200
house servant
What is cooking, taking care of children, cleaning, lawn work
300
cotton gin
What is machine that removed seeds from short staple cotton
300
planters
What is large scale farmers who owned typically more than 50 slaves.
300
factor
What is cotton broker who brokered the sale of cotton for the farmers.
300
arranged marriage
What is a marriage planned for enhanced business opportunities.
300
separation
What is worst thing a slave could endure for his/her family
400
Great Britain
What is country who demanded most of the South's cotton
400
Cotton is King
What is term used to describe that the economy of the entire south was based on this one cash crop.
400
Tredegar Iron Works
What is most productive iron works in the nation even though industry was a very small part of the southern economy.
400
yeoman
What is owners of small farms in the south
400
skilled slave
What is slave who was trained in a skilled job as a blacksmith, silversmith, or carpenter and lent out for pay to another plantation.
500
patent
What Eli Whitney put on his cotton gin invention but others ignored.
500
crop rotation
What the planters used as the cotton rapidly used the nutrients of the land which had to be replenished.
500
James Henry Hammond
What is politician from South Carolina who coined the phrase "Cotton is King"
500
Atlantic Coast
What is place where few important cities were located in the south.
500
slave codes
What is strict laws which outlined all of the things slaves could not do...reading, writing, traveling, etc.