Chapter 15

Question 1

Lower South

Answer 1

A major cotton growing region

Question 2

What did Eli Whitney invent

Answer 2

The cotton gin

Question 3

Overseer

Answer 3

A white supervisor for field slaves

Question 4

House slaves

Answer 4

Slaves who worked in the plantation owners house

Question 5

Field slaves

Answer 5

Slaves who worked in the cotton fields

Question 6

Slave rebellion

Answer 6

A rebellion led by slaves

Question 7

Who started a major slave rebellion

Answer 7

Nat Turner

Question 8

Slave Quarters

Answer 8

A small shack for 6-8 slaves to live in

Question 9

Cotton gin

Answer 9

A machine that removes seeds from raw cotton

Question 10

Slave Trade

Answer 10

Slave owners often traded slaves to other slave owners

Question 11

Slave Auction

Answer 11

Slaves would be auctioned off to whoever made the highest bid

Question 12

The Cotton Gin took seeds from cotton ___x faster than by hand

Answer 12

50

Question 13

Cotton is a what

Answer 13

Cash crop

Question 14

What kind of crop is cotton

Answer 14

Labor-intensive

Question 15

Who had a plantation in Mississippi that made up to $10,000 a year

Answer 15

W.S. Hyland

Question 16

What states were added to the union

Answer 16

Mississippi,Alabama,Arkansas,Florida.

Question 17

The only cities in the south were what

Answer 17

Seaports

Question 18

The most powerful people had what career

Answer 18

Large plantation owners

Question 19

Who were in what classes in the social classes of the south

Answer 19

First Class(top class): merchants and large plantation owners
Middle class: middle class farmers
Lower class: poor farmers and free blacks 
Worst: slaves