Ch 12 Study Topics

The invention of the cotton gin revived the economy of the South.

• True

• False

The cotton gin created a ______ boom in which farmers grew little else.

• corn

• tobacco

• fish

• cotton

Some people encouraged southerners to focus on other _____ and __________.

• plants and animals

• crops and industries

• wood and metals

• bridges and roads

The invention of the cotton gin made the South a one-crop economy and increased the need for _____ labor.

• slave

• farm

• animal

• hard

What machine removes seeds from short-staple cotton?

• cotton gin

• textile loom

• steam engine

• water machine

large-scale farmers who held more than 20 slave were called...

• farmers

• planters

• industries

• engineer

The area of high cotton production became known as the...

• fabric belt

• cotton belt

• gin belt

• planter belt

Another name for crop brokers is...

• farmers

• belts

• factors

• planters

one of the most productive iron works in the nation is...

• Tredeger Iron Works

• Southern Iron Works

• Slave Owned Works

• Lumber and Iron Works

Southern society and culture consisted of which four main groups?

• yeomen farmers, poor whites, slaves, and free African Americans.

• Nurses, wealthy farmers, planters and slaves