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Antebellum
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| antebellum | period of time before the war |
| planter | The highest social class in the antebellum South |
| yeoman farmer | A white middle-class farmer Owned fewer than 100 acres |
| Crawford Long | Georgian who discovered that ether could be used as an anesthetic so patients would not experience pain during surgery |
| old field schools | Rural, one-room schools often build in old, abandoned cotton fields |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
| cotton gin | removed the seeds from the cotton fiber |
| King Cotton | nickname for the premier crop of the south |
| Sea Island cotton- | soft long-fiber cotton grown only on sea islands and along the coast |