Adnan Sayed Ch. #14 Study Guide

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Across
  1. 2. What percent of southerners were wealthy slave owners that owned at least 50 slaves?
  2. 3. What new invention made it easy to talk to others across great distances?
  3. 7. Some slaves were very skilled ________?
  4. 12. The difficult/time-consuming part of harvesting cotton was removing the ______.
  5. 13. Because of their wealth, what did many of these planters become?
  6. 14. Steam power ______ the American Industry rapidly.
  7. 16. What crop did the industrial revolution increase demand for?
  8. 17. The slave codes made it so that the slaves were not allowed to have ______?
  9. 19. What were 75% of Southern Whites?
  10. 20. Since the cotton production in the South became immense, southerners needed to get more ________.
  11. 22. What role did industry play in the South?
  12. 23. Slave owners didn't like having free blacks around because they thought that the blacks would set a ______ ______?
  13. 25. Most white southerners owned _____ slaves?
  14. 26. A single worker using the cotton gin could do the work of ______ cleaning cotton by hand.
  15. 27. Some slaves were very skilled ________?
  16. 29. Because of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, the south became a ________ ________?
  17. 30. The intent of the slave codes was to keep slaves from _________ away?
Down
  1. 1. The slave codes made it so that the slaves were ________ from gathering in groups of more than 3.
  2. 4. Slave weren't allowed to learn to read and write because owners thought that it would make it harder for slaves to _______?
  3. 5. Which inventor created the cotton gin, which cleaned the cotton by pulling it apart and removing the seeds?
  4. 6. The slave codes made it so that the slaves could not leave their owners lands without a _______ _______?
  5. 8. This 75% of Southern Whites had to work with _____ ______.
  6. 9. What new invention did Elias Howe and Isaac Singer create around the 1850's
  7. 10. Which inventor created a lightweight steel plow at around the 1830's?
  8. 11. What advancement concerning rails made railroads safer and faster? Was created in 1829
  9. 15. The south became more dependent on the ______ for industry.
  10. 18. Where were the “major lines” concentrated; parts of US and specific cities that became major hubs?
  11. 21. Who created this new invention? (hint: Morse Code)
  12. 24. What were these one percent of southerners know as?
  13. 28. Why did so many immigrants come to the US from Ireland during the 1840's and 1850's?