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- 2. ________ than 1% of Southerners were wealthy slave owners with at least 50 slaves.
- 4. Most _____ southerners owned 50 slaves.
- 6. About 2,100 _____ of cotton was produced in the US in 1850.
- 9. Immigrants came from the US to Ireland because they were ______ and there was disease.
- 10. About 4 million _________ arrived in the 1840's and 50's.
- 12. Steam power was _______ and cheap, let factories be built anywhere.
- 16. Engineers learned how to build stronger ________ and smoother roadbeds.
- 19. _____ ______ invented the Cotton Gin and an engine.
- 21. 75% of ______ farmers worked with their slaves in the field.
- 22. The _____ played as the farming society in the south.
Down
- 1. Some owners treat their slaves humanely for protection against mistreatment and ________ property.
- 3. Growing cotton was a huge profit that effected the ______ economy.
- 5. Textile mills in the North and in Britian needed more cotton to make ______.
- 7. _______ ships made it possible to win a large win a large share of the world’s sea trade in 1840’s and 50’s.
- 8. John Deere invented the _______ which helped farmers create crops faster than before, which made them more money.
- 11. Most cotton plantations were in South Carolino through ______ and Mississippi.
- 13. During the 1850 288,000 immigrants arrived in the __.
- 14. South became to ______ more on the North and Europe.
- 15. A ______ gin could do the work of 50 people.
- 17. Two African Americans who resisted slavery was ______ Vesey and Nat Turner.
- 18. SOME of the restrictions placed on slaved was that they could not leave their homes, and the could not have gun _______.
- 20. Over 200,000 free ______ lived in the South around 1860.