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Cotton is King
Social System
Slave Life
Farming
Miscellaneous
100
Invention that allowed farmers to profit from a new crop.
What is the cotton gin?
100
Southerners who lived on land that couldn't grow cash crops.
Who are the poor southern whites?
100
By the 1800s, most slaves where this religion.
What is Christianity?
100
Economy of the south.
What is agricultural?
100
Winner of the 2014 NCAA Basketball National Championship (Mens).
What is University of Connecticut?
200
Man who did not profit from his successful invention.
Who is Eli Whitney?
200
Large scale farmer who owned more than 20 slaves.
What is a planter?
200
Strategies used by slaveholders to oppress/control their slaves (at least 2).
What are improving living conditions to prevent revolt, public punishment to instill fear, and Slave Codes.
200
List at least 3 southern cash crops.
What is rice, indigo, tobacco, and cotton?
200
Who won the 2014 NCAA National Basketball Championship (womens')
What is the University of Connecticut?
300
Type of crop that is grown for profit, not the use of the farmer.
What is a cash crop?
300
Small scale farmers with less than 20 slaves, if any.
Who are yeomen?
300
Job that required slaves to work 24 hours/day.
What is working in the planter's home?
300
Farming practices that helps replace nutrients in the soil.
What is crop rotation?
300
List at least two challenges faced by free African Americans in the South.
Barred from voting, could not travel freely, prevented from working at certain jobs.
400
Region of the country with high cotton production.
What is the Cotton Belt?
400
Largest social group in the south.
What are the Yeomen?
400
Emotional songs that blended traditional African and Christian music.
What are spirituals?
400
List at least 2 of the non cash crops that were encouraged in the south.
What are corn, sweet potatoes and sugarcane?
400
Industries that developed in the south (at least 2).
What are factories to process farmer's crops, sawmills, cotton mills?
500
Man who said "Cotton is King"
Who is James Henry Hammond?
500
Center of social life in the south.
What is the church?
500
The result of Nat Turner's rebellion.
The death of 60 white people, 100 slaves, and the increase of slave codes.
500
What effect did the cotton boom have on the slave trade in the U.S.?
It increased the intra-national slave trade and the belief that the Southern economy was reliant upon slavery.
500
List at least two ways that an African American in the south could be free.
Descendant of a revolution, ran away, earned money to buy freedom.