The Land of Cotton

2. A crop grown in coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia.
5. The "American _________" in which many African Americans earned their freedom.
6. The main religion of enslaved Africans by the early 1800's.
7. An invention by Eli Whitney that quickly and efficiently harvested a major cash crop.
11. Gabriel _________ plotted the first slave uprising in 1800.
14. The types of Americans who made up the bottom of Southern Society.
16. The type of business that the South relied heavily on. Another word for farming.
19. The individual who planned a slave uprising in 1822 in Charleston, South Carolina.
21. An important way for enslaved people to pass the workdays and keep their culture alive.
22. The laws that forbade enslaved people from rights that American citizens had.

1. The term for individuals who wanted the system of slavery to be outlawed.
3. A major form of resistance to slavery that many plantation owners feared.
4. The most important crop produced in Southern states.
8. An enslaved minister who led an uprising in Virginia. While he was ultimately executed as a result, it did result in many deaths of white civilians.
9. The type of ordinary farmers that made up the majority of the Southern Population.
10. A crop produced in the upper Southern States.
12. The institution that the development of the cotton gin strengthened.
13. This finishes out the phrase "Cotton is _____" that Southerners used.
15. The individual who was formerly enslaved and became a spokesperson for the abolitionist movement.
17. The system that was used to organized enslaved labor.
18. The opposite of urban. What type of region the South was.
20. "The Planter _____" The group at the top tier of Southern Society.