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The South
The South pre civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Inventor of the Reaper | Cyrus Mcormick |
| Inventor of the steel plow | John Deere |
| Inventor of the cotton gin | Eli Whitney |
| Effect of the cotton gin on slavery | Increased demand for slaves |
| Emotional Christian songs sung by slaves | Spirituals |
| Main cash crop of the South | Cotton |
| Area of the South known for high cotton production | Cotton Belt |
| Landowners who owned 20 or more slaves | Planters |
| Brokers who sold the cotton harvest | Factors |
| Used by slave owners and supporters to justify slavery | Religion |
| Owners of small farms | Yeoman |
| Free African Americans were typically: | Descendants of freed slaves Refugees of the Haitian Revolution Runaways or slaves who had bought their freedom |
| Main classes of Southern Society | Planters Yeoman farmers Poor Whites Free African Americans Slaves |
| Slave preacher who believed he had been called by God to end slavery and led a brutal slave rebellion | Nat Turner |
| Deadliest slave revolt in history | Nat Turner's Rebellion |
| Punishment of Nat Turner for rebellion | Sentenced to Death |