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History Term 2 Final
ch.7-12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a cotton gin and who created it? | Eli Whitney, It revolutionized the cotton industry, boosting farming and resulted in a cotton boom! |
| Cotton belt: | area stretching from south Carolina to Texas producing most of the nations cotton. |
| Crop rotation: | Changing to type of crop you grow in a field every year to avoid depleting nutrients and minerals. |
| Cash crop: | any crop grown in large quantities for money. |
| What were some disadvantages of cotton? | -roads were few and far between, and poorly maintained -Rivers provided easy way to transport goods. -cotton plants sap nutrients out od soil |
| how many families had slaves? | about 1/3 of white families in the south owned slaves. |
| Free southern society order: | planters-richest and most powerful yeoman-owners of small farms poor whites-didn't own enough land for cash crops Free African Americans-great amounts of discrimination were faced. |
| Why did cities and states limit the rights of free slaves? | They feared former slaves would encourage slave rebellions. |
| What were some laws limiting rights of free slaves? | -no voting, traveling freely, living in some states not permitted, couldn't hold certain jobs, and had to be represented by a white person in business affairs. |
| What were the slaves treated like? | - they were treated like property and people could do whatever they wanted to them. |
| What would slave masters do to encourage obedience? | -they encouraged them by whipping, shackling, chaining, or otherwise punishing them. |
| Why were so many slaves illiterate? | -Literacy laws prohibited anyone from teaching slaves to read. |
| how did religion help slaves? | -It boosted their sprits and helped them "escape" their hardships. |
| What were some small ways slaves tried to improve their lives? | -sewing scraps of cloth into quilts or clothes -Growing gardens, hunting, and fishing to improve rations. -Rebelled by working slowly and told Folktales with morals to pass on to children. |
| How did parents try to pas their culture to their children? | -sang Christian songs about freedom called spirituals. -told folktales w/morals to pass on culture. -taught children to outsmart slaveholders through storytelling. |
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