Chapter 12

Question 0

inventor of cotton gin

Answer 0

Eli Whitney

Question 1

a machine used to remove small seeds from short staple cotton

Answer 1

cotton gin

Question 2

large scale farmers who held more than 20 slaves

Answer 2

Planters

Question 3

a region stretching from South Carolina to east Texas where most US cotton was produced during mid 1800s

Answer 3

Cotton belt

Question 4

owners of small farms with few or no slaves

Answer 4

Yeomen

Question 5

Strict laws used to control slaves behavior

Answer 5

Slave codes

Question 6

region where wealthy influential southerners lived

Answer 6

Atlantic Coast

Question 7

a virginia slave who believed God had told him to end slavery

Answer 7

Nat Turner

Question 8

a violent slave revolt

Answer 8

Nats rebellion

Question 9

Christian songs to express their beliefs

Answer 9

spirituals

Question 10

Southerners believed future of us depended on

Answer 10

slavery and cotton

Question 11

Why did the slave trade increase

Answer 11

The production of the cotton gin

Question 12

What served as center of Northern African communities

Answer 12

churches

Question 13

Cotton boom occurred because

Answer 13

invention of the cotton gin

Question 14

What was a disadvantage for growing cotton

Answer 14

used up nutrients in the soil

Question 15

what was due to the demand of slave labor/price drop after American revolution

Answer 15

tobacco

Question 16

Result of Turners revolt

Answer 16

Many states strengthened their slave code, placed stricter control on slave population

Question 17

Largest part of southern population

Answer 17

Slaves

Question 18

In early 1800s Africans could vote

Answer 18

in ballots and weren’t discriminated by race