Anabella Ruiz Ch #14 Study Guide

3. Only about ___ % of sotherners were wealthy plantation owners with more than 50 slaves.
4. About ___ _______ bales of cotton were produced in the U.S, in 1850.
7. The amount of slaves in the southern population was ___ _____ %.
9. Inventors of the sewing machine, made mass production of clothing possible, big $$$
11. Slave ______ were intended to keep slaves from rebelling.
15. Many workers in Northern factories were ________; about 2-4 million of them came to the U.S. to escape problems in their homelands.
18. About 75% of people in the south were __________.
20. Nat _______ was another African American who resisted slavery.
21. _____ Vesey was an African American who resited slavery.
22. Eli ________ invented the cotton gin which did the work of fifty people.
23. The one percent of people who were wealthy platation owners were known as ______.

1. Most white southerners owned about ___ slaves.
2. Since the southern states grew so much cotton, a range of states stretching from South Carolina to Mississippi got nicknamed the ________.
5. During the Industrial revolution, southern farmers had to grow a large amount of this crop to sell to the Northern textile factories.
6. These ships were the best form of water transportation before steam ships replaced them.
8. Because of slave codes, slaves were not allowed to gather in groups of ____ or more.
10. Because of slave codes slaves could not own ______.
12. Because of slave codes, slaves could not leave their owner's land without a _______.
13. Since _______ was not huge in the south, the south depended on the North to sell their goods to.
14. John ______ invented farming machines to make farming easier for people; tractors in Home Depot?
16. Some "skilled" slaves were ________ and blacksmiths.
17. Many slave owners viewed their slaves as ______ that had to stay healthy.
19. Most railroads in the 1800s were built in the ______.