US The South

This was king, the biggest crop in the South for the first half of the 1800s.

• politics
• sugarcane
• cotton
• slavery

This shortage will cause devastating consequences for the South during the Civil War.

• canals
• railroads
• rivers
• roads

This group of southerners owned small farms of about 50 to 200 acres and no slaves

• yeomen

• plantation owners

• rural poor

• tenant farmers

This person had charge of watching over the enslaved workers and managing the farm when the owner was not home:

• plantation owner
• plantation wife
• yeomen
• tenant farmers

Most enslaved people on plantations worked as:

• domestics.
• carpenters.
• field hands.
• blacksmiths.

Who led a group of enslaved African Americans in rebellion in 1831?

• Frederick Douglass
• Nat Turner
• Harriet Tubman
• Daniel Christian

This crop transformed the stagnant economy of the South into a prosperous, robust economy.

• tobacco
• rice
• cotton
• sugarcane

This group of Southerners measured their wealth partly by the number of enslaved people they owned.

• yeomen
• rural poor
• plantation owners
• tenant farmers

These made it a crime to teach enslaved people to read or write.

• spirituals
• slave codes
• overseers
• credits

This made up the smallest group of whites in the South.

• yeomen
• plantation owners
• tenant farmers
• rural poor