Agricultural South Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. the very bottom of the southern social classes. they were not considered citizens but property and provided the labor to grow cash crops
  2. 4. the middlemen crop brokers that would buy the cotton from the southern slave owners and sell the cotton at a higher price to the factories in the North
  3. 8. the middle class of southern social classes that owned a small number of slaves but usually worked along side of them
  4. 9. a slave that led a slave revolt where he organized around 100 slaves to rebel and they went to many southern slave plantations and killed the slave owners and their families
  5. 10. a slave himself but he would be the one that carries out the punishments on other slaves such as whippings. Punishments were carried out in front of the other slaves to deter future problems
  6. 11. the highest level of southern social classes, they are the one's that own the slaves and plantations
  7. 13. cotton that would be turned into cotton strands and later all clothes made from cotton
  8. 16. the bottom of southern social classes that did not own any land and survived by doing odd jobs and hunting and fishing
  9. 17. the use of scientific methods to help grow better crops each year example crop rotation
Down
  1. 1. these are the slaves the picked and processed the cash crops. they typically worked from sunrise to sundown 7 days a week
  2. 3. stories told by slaves to their children that typically taught them a moral lesson on how to survive being a slave. Slave owners were typically a scary animal.
  3. 5. these individuals lived in the south and were either born free and were given their freedom by their former slaves owners
  4. 6. slaves that served the plantation owner and his family. they typically were treated better than other slaves such as better living conditions, more food, and better clothing
  5. 7. songs that slaves would sing that had a hidden message on how to survive as a slave
  6. 12. the area in the southern U.S. that produced cotton that stretched from South Carolina to Texas
  7. 14. the inventor of the cotton gin and this invention allowed cotton to be cleaned faster and the demand for slaves to increase across the south
  8. 15. this invention helped cotton production and removed the seeds from the cotton fibers at a much faster rate