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- 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 ______.
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- 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 ______.