Chapter 13

Question 0

One person could clean __ of cotton per day

Answer 0

One pound

Question 1

Five main crops growing in the south (list 3):

Answer 1

1) tobacco
2) rice
3) indigo
4) cotton
5) corn

Question 2

Eli Whitney changed that when he invented the __.

Answer 2

Cotton gin

Question 3

The __ was a hand cranked cylinder that easily pulled cotton and its seeds apart.

Answer 3

Cotton gin

Question 4

__ became very profitable

Answer 4

Cotton

Question 5

Cotton had two main advantages over other crops (all):

Answer 5

1) could be stored for long periods of time

2) it’s lightness made it fairly inexpensive to transport

Question 6

Most of the countries cotton was produced in the __.

Answer 6

Cotton belt

Question 7

The cotton belt stretched from __ to __.

Answer 7

South Carolina, Texas

Question 8

The best cotton soil was in __ and __.

Answer 8

Georgia, South Carolina

Question 9

In __ congress stopped __.

Answer 9

1808, the importation of slaves

Question 10

Farmers sold their cotton to merchants who then contacted __ to arrange transportation for cotton aboard ships.

Answer 10

Factors

Question 11

__ became one of the largest factories that produced iron products.

Answer 11

The Tredegar Iron Works

Question 12

Only about __ of all southerners owned slaves.

Answer 12

1/3

Question 13

Slaves had two jobs (all):

Answer 13

1) field hand

2) house servant

Question 14

__ were owners of small farms.

Answer 14

Yeoman

Question 15

__ was an important part of a slaves life.

Answer 15

Religion

Question 16

About half of the free African Americans lived in the __.

Answer 16

South

Question 17

Many whites believed the slaves couldn’t __.

Answer 17

Survive outside of slavery

Question 18

__ was a system where enslaved men, women, and children over ten years of age did all the same filed work from dawn until dusk.

Answer 18

The Gang Labor System

Question 19

To most salve holders slaves were __ not __.

Answer 19

Property, people

Question 20

__ were often split up and sometimes they were far away from each other.

Answer 20

Families

Question 21

__ limited what a slave could and could not do.

Answer 21

Slave codes

Question 22

In some states it was illegal to __.

Answer 22

Teach a slave to read and write

Question 23

For slaves their __ was the most important aspect if their lives.

Answer 23

Families

Question 24

__ which were stories with a moral to teach children how to survive slavery.

Answer 24

Folktales

Question 25

To try and resist slavery slaves would do four things (list 3):

Answer 25

1) damage tools
2) escape
3) rebel
4) work at a slower pace

Question 26

In __ __ led a rebellion in Virginia killing __ white people .

Answer 26

1831, Nat Turner, 51

Question 27

Over __ blacks were later killed as a result of thud and turner was __.

Answer 27

100, executed