Early 1800s in the South

He invented the Cotton Gin.

• Eli Whitney

• Richard Arkwright

• Samuel Slater

• John Deere

Used to make cloth, thus a huge demand exists. Seeds were difficult to remove.

• cotton

• hemp

• silk

• textiles

Hand cranked device with wire teeth to pull cotton fiber away from the seeds.This invention revolutionizes the cotton industry!

• water frame

• steam powered factories

• textiles

• cotton gin

Region from South Carolina to Texas that grew the most cotton.

• Cotton Boom

• Cotton Gin

• Cotton Belt

• Cotton Frame

Rebellion a group of slaves through Virginia in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kill planter families. Ended with 60 whites and 100 blacks killed.

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• Dred Scott Decision

• Bacon's Rebellion

• Whiskey Rebellion

Small farmers who owned 100 acres on average.

They had few if any slaves. They would work right along with their slaves.

• factors

• brokers

• yeomen

• Free African Americans

Which statement accurately describes southern society in the mid-1800s?

• very few white southerners owned slaves
• few white southerns owned the land they farmed
• Many African Americans in the South owned land
• Most white southerners were small farmers

Free African-Americans in the South in the early and mid-1800s....

• had the same rights and freedoms as white southerns
• had few rights and freedoms
• usually had escaped from slavery
• could travel freely in their home states

Who led a group of slaves that rebelled against their white masters, killing around 60 white people in 1831?

• Nat Turner

• Thomy Lafon

• Henry Blair

• Norbert Rillieux

What document allowed Maine into the Union as a non-slave state, Missouri as a slave state, making the issue of slavery worse throughout America?

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• 1820 Slave Compromise

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Missouri Compromise