US History - Chapter 13 - The South

A machine that removes seeds from short-staple cotton. Helped increase slavery and the success of the plantation system.

Richmond, Virginia company that was the most productive ironworks in the country prior to the Civil War. Owned by Joseph R. Anderson.

Large-scale farmers who held more than 20 slaves.

Stories with a moral, used to teach lessons to children.

Owners of small farms.

Emotional Christian songs that blended African and European music. Many times they were sung in the fields by the slaves.

A region stretching from South Carolina to East Texas where most U.S. cotton was produced during the mid-1800s.

A violent slave revolt in Southhampton County, Virginia. 60 white people in the community were killed along with over 100 innocent slaves who lived in the area

Crop brokers who managed the cotton trade for the planters (middlemen).