Chapter 13 Flashcards
One person could clean __ of cotton per day
One pound
Five main crops growing in the south (list 3):
1) tobacco
2) rice
3) indigo
4) cotton
5) corn
Eli Whitney changed that when he invented the __.
Cotton gin
The __ was a hand cranked cylinder that easily pulled cotton and its seeds apart.
Cotton gin
__ became very profitable
Cotton
Cotton had two main advantages over other crops (all):
1) could be stored for long periods of time
2) it’s lightness made it fairly inexpensive to transport
Most of the countries cotton was produced in the __.
Cotton belt
The cotton belt stretched from __ to __.
South Carolina, Texas
The best cotton soil was in __ and __.
Georgia, South Carolina
In __ congress stopped __.
1808, the importation of slaves
Farmers sold their cotton to merchants who then contacted __ to arrange transportation for cotton aboard ships.
Factors
__ became one of the largest factories that produced iron products.
The Tredegar Iron Works
Only about __ of all southerners owned slaves.
1/3
Slaves had two jobs (all):
1) field hand
2) house servant
__ were owners of small farms.
Yeoman
__ was an important part of a slaves life.
Religion
About half of the free African Americans lived in the __.
South
Many whites believed the slaves couldn’t __.
Survive outside of slavery
__ was a system where enslaved men, women, and children over ten years of age did all the same filed work from dawn until dusk.
The Gang Labor System
To most salve holders slaves were __ not __.
Property, people
__ were often split up and sometimes they were far away from each other.
Families
__ limited what a slave could and could not do.
Slave codes
In some states it was illegal to __.
Teach a slave to read and write
For slaves their __ was the most important aspect if their lives.
Families
__ which were stories with a moral to teach children how to survive slavery.
Folktales
To try and resist slavery slaves would do four things (list 3):
1) damage tools
2) escape
3) rebel
4) work at a slower pace
In __ __ led a rebellion in Virginia killing __ white people .
1831, Nat Turner, 51
Over __ blacks were later killed as a result of thud and turner was __.
100, executed
