Vocab
A large area of privately owned land where crops were grown through the labor of enslaved people or workers who lived on the land
What is a plantation?
South's biggest use of transportation
What is a steam boat?
Grew cotton for a living
What is the South?
Believed in slavery
What is the South?
During the 1800s, the jagged New England coast was a great place for
What is shipbuilding, commerce, and fishing?
A hand-operated machine that cleans seeds and other unwanted material from cotton
What is a Cotton Gin?
North's biggest use of transportation
What is a railroad?
Which group of Southerners dominated the politics and economy of the South
Who is the wealthy plantation owners?
The bottom of the Southern social structure in the 1800s
What is a slave?
The Southern coast was ideal for growing sugarcane and rice because of its
What is swamps and marshes?
A person who favors an agricultural way of life and government policies that support agricultural interests
Who is an agrarian?
In the South, the most important product shipped by water was
What is cotton?
What is the job of a slave
What is starting work at a early age and continue working until you die?
What was the effect of the cotton gin on slavery in the South
What is made cotton more valuable?
Which of the following is true of Southerners during the 1800s
Who are most agrarians?
The dramatic change in economies and cultures brought about by the use of machines to do work formerly done by hand
What is the Industrial Revolution?
What did slaves normally travel on
What is by foot, boat, or wagon?
What is the job of the overseer
What is supervising enslaved people on large plantations?
African Americans responds to racism in the North
What is forming their own churches and businesses?
What was an achievement of Francis Cabot Lowell
What is he helped build one of the first American textile factories?
A person whose wealth comes from the ownership of industrial businesses and who favors government policies that support industry
What is an industrialist?
What did the North and the South have in common with transportation.
What is they both wanted to get things moved as fast as posible?
North's biggest business
What is a railroad?
How were the lives of enslaved African Americans similar to the lives of free African Americans
What is both experienced racism and discrimination?
Who invented the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney?