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southern life
Grade 7 ss
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Positive results of the Cotton Boom | it lead to a better economy, and they could sell more cotton. |
| How did the cotton gin lead to the cotton boom in the south? | The cotton gin cleaned cotton more efficiently, decreased time, made it more profitable, and there was an increase in slavery. |
| Negative results of the Cotton Boom | there was a demand for slaves, and there was a reliance on one industry. The South did suffer, because the value of cotton decreased. |
| What is the cotton belt? | a region of the US South where cotton is the historic main crop, especially in parts of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. |
| Why were some southern leaders concerned about the economic focus on cotton? | Some worried that their overseas customers would find new sources for their product. |
| Who was the most powerful social group in the south? | The planter elites (cottonocracy) |
| Which social group was the largest in the south? | Yeomen. They were owners of small farms who worked long days at a variety of tasks. If they owned slaves, they worked right along side them. |
| Why was discrimination against free African Americans harsher in the south than in the north? | some southerners feared the influence free African Americans might have on slaves were harsher in the south than in the north a system of badges were set up to distinguish between African Americans and slaves in the south there were more slaves that worke |
| Why did the cotton gin increase the need for slaves? | Cotton growing became so profitable for the planters that it greatly increased their demand for both land and slave labor |
| What were living conditions like for most slaves? | Most masters viewed their slaves as they did their land—things to be “worn out, not improved.” They provided only what was needed to keep their slaves healthy enough to work. Slaves lived crowded together in rough cabins. |
| Why were spirituals important to slaves? | They communicated many Christian ideals while also communicating the hardship that was a result of being an African-American slave. The spiritual was often directly tied to the thier life. It was a way of sharing religious, emotional, and physical experie |
| What was the impact of Nat Turner’s rebellion? | Overall, the laws enacted in the aftermath of the Turner Rebellion enforced widespread illiteracy among slaves. As a result, most newly freed slaves and many free blacks in the South were illiterate at the end of the American Civil War. |
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