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Foy Ch. 13 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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A machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 to remove seeds from short-staple cotton; revolutionized the cotton industry. | cotton gin |
Large-scale farmers who held more than 20 slaves. | planters |
A region stretching from South Carolina to east Texas where most U.S. cotton was produced during the mid-1800's. | cotton belt |
Crop brokers who managed the trade between southern planters and their customers. | factors |
A large iron factory that operated in Richmond, Virginia, in the early to mid-1800's. | Tredegar Iron Works |
Owners of small farms. | yeomen |
Stories that often provide a moral lesson. | folktale |
Emotional Christian songs sung by enslaved people in the South that mixed African and European elements and usually expressed slaves' religious beliefs. | spirituals |
An 1831 rebellion in which Nat Turner led a group of slaves in Virginia in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kill planter families. | Nat Turner's Rebellion |