Module 14: The South

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Across
  1. 2. owners of small farms
  2. 4. a story that often provides a moral lesson
  3. 5. a slave who lead the most famous and deadly slave rebellion
  4. 6. a large-scale farmer who held more than 20 slaves
  5. 7. emotional Christian songs sung by enslaved people in the SOuth that mixed African and European elements and usually expressed slaves' religious beliefs
  6. 9. a machine invented by Eli Whitney to remove seeds from short-staple cotton
  7. 11. men hired by farmers and planters to oversee and direct the work of slaves on plantations
Down
  1. 1. a large iron factory that operated in Richmond, Virginia in the early to mid-1800s
  2. 3. passing down stories, poems, and songs by word of mouth
  3. 8. a region stretching from South Carolina to east Texas where most U.S. cotton was produced during the mid-1800s
  4. 10. a crop broker who managed the trade between southern planters and their customers