history ch.14
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- what played a central role in the southeren econmy and ure?
- agriculture
- what were the souths thre major cash crops?
- rice, tobacco, indiago
- what new southern cash crop boosted the economy?
- cotton!
- what were two types of cotton imported from the West indies in 1785?
- long-staple or black-seed
- what was the advantage of long-stable?
- long white fibers, which could be removed from the seeds easily
- What was difficult about short-staple cotton?
- short white fibers made it hard to get seeds out
- about how long did it take to remove the seeds from just one pound of cotton by hand?
- 1 day
- what did Eli whitney invent to help make the process of taking out seeds quicker?
- cotton gin
- ylinder filled with rows of wire teeth. Worker would spin the cylander by turnign a . used to remove seeds from short-staple cotton
- cotton gin
- large scale farmers who owned more then 20 slaves-built gins tyhat could harvest lots of cotton
- planters
- from south carolina to east texas had formed what is known as the cotton kingdom and _________(the region that grew most of country's cotton crop)
- cotton belt
- Nutt and others experimented with cotton production were part of a larger movemant through the south that promoted ________, or the use of scientific techniques to improve crop production.
- scientific agriculture
- publication that informed farmers about the latest advances in agricultural research
- Farmer's Register
- list 2 reasons that cotton was inexpensive to grow.
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1)harvested cotton didnt persish over time
2)cotton was light; didnt cost much to transport - what country was the souths main forgeign trading partner?
- great britain
- crop brokers who managed the trade betweenplanters and their customers
- factors
- common southern food crops
- corn, sweet potatoes, wheat, rice, and sugarcane
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who invented a new sugar-processing system
((processed sugarcane into granulated sugar)) - Etienne Bore
- what was Bore's nickname?
- "savior of louisana"
- only factory in the south that made iron products
- Tredegar Iron Works
- who took over Tredegar Iron works?
- Joesph R. Anderson
- In the 1st half of the 1800's, about how many white southern families owned slaves?
- one third
- male planter focused primarily on raising crops and left the running of____
- their wives
- most white southerners were yeomen, meaning that they were _____
- small landowning farmers
- unlike the planters, yeomen___
- worked side by side with slaves
- which was a central to southeren social life?
- religion
- wut is the percentage of the southerne population that was madwe up of very poor landless whites?
- 10%
- whic hsouthern city attracted many writers who gathered to discuss their poems, short stories, and essays?
- charleston
- much of the work in southern cities was done by___
- slaves
- by 1860 more than half of all free african americans lived in the ___
- south
- the center life of the free urban african americans was___
- the church
- why would white people discrimminat free black people?
- feared the blacks would encourage rebellions amoung slaves.
- list three things that black people could not do
- could not vote, travel freely, or hold certain types of jobs
- when all the slaves worked on the same task at the same time,usually from sunup to sun down
- "gang" systems
- slaves recieved very poor____ and ____
- clothing and shelter
- what would some slaves have forfood?
- piece of corn bread for breakfast and dinner
- wut would slave holders brib slaves with, to encourage their obedience?
- food or better conditions
- how many hours would slaves work a day in the fields or in the house?
- 12-14 hours
- stories wit ha moral, which taught lessons about how to survive under slavory
- folktales
- what branch of chistianity was slaves
- Protestant
- emotional christian songs that blended african and european traditions
- spirituals
- what r 2 ways slaves would protest?
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1)worked slower to increase hours in the fields
2)running away for a few days - why would slaves run away temporarly
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1)visit relatives
2)avoid angry slaveholders - began on august 1831. Turner led a group of slaves in a plan to kill all of the planter families in their country.
- Net turner's rebellion
- how many white people were killed and how many black people were killed in the Nat Turner's Rebellion?
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white=60
black=100