SS CHAPTER 13

Question 1

Yeomen

Answer 1

white owners of small farms

Question 2

Nat Turner

Answer 2

a slave from Virginia who believed that God had told him to end slavery. Led a group of slaves in a plan to kill of slaveholders and their families in the country.

Question 3

Folktales

Answer 3

stories with morals to teach lessons about how to survive slavery

Question 4

Spirituals

Answer 4

emotional christian songs that blended African and European music, to express their religious beliefs.

Question 5

Planters

Answer 5

large scale farmers who held more than 20 slaves

Question 6

Factors

Answer 6

crop brokers, managed the cotton trade.

Question 7

Forms of Rebelling

Answer 7

Slaves worked slower to protest long hours in the fields. Others ran away to avoid an angry slaveholder. Also broke their tools.

Question 8

House slaves

Answer 8

workerd as butlers, cooks, or nursers in the Planter’s home. They had better food, clothing, and shelter than field hands did. They had to serve the family 24 hours a day.

Question 9

Field Slaves

Answer 9

worked on the same tasks, worked sun up to sundown. Sickness and Poor weather rarely stopped the work.