Module 5

Question 1

agrarian

Answer 1

an agriculture-related. a society whose economy depends on the production of food crops and farmlands an agrarian society

Question 2

substance farming

Answer 2

where nearly all of the crops money goes to the farmer and the farmers family

Question 3

commercial farming

Answer 3

a farming method in which
plant and livestock production is practiced with the intention of selling the products on the market.

Question 4

yeoman farmers

Answer 4

a farmer who does not use slaves but, uses his family as labor and does mainly substance farming

Question 5

cotton gin

Answer 5

made in 1793; took the seeds out of a cotton plant. Eli Whitman

Question 6

Nat Turner

Answer 6

Nat Turner is a slave who led the most violent rebellion in slavery. He was believed to have visions from God and he thought that it was God who told him to go back to slavery.

Question 7

Planters

Answer 7

planters are people who had big land like plantations. large-scale farmers—soon adopted the cotton gin and were able to process tons of cotton
much faster than hand processing.

Question 8

Memphis

Answer 8

Memphis was the headquarters of the south because it was close to the Mississippi River and was good for trade.

Question 9

Slave Codes

Answer 9

Slave Codes are what the slaveowners used to control movement of the slaves

Question 10

Eli Whitman

Answer 10

He created the Cotton Gin