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  1. 4. Inventor of the Cotton Gin
  2. 5. Major city at the mouth of the Mississippi river with a population over 165,000 by 1860
  3. 6. Slavery was banned in this country in 1834
  4. 7. the most common punishment for slaves who ran away
  5. 9. he operated a private academy in Willington, SC
  6. 10. a plant used to make blue dye
  7. 14. Tubman escaped from _____ into Pennsylvania
  8. 18. Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina are referred to as this
  9. 24. Prosser was betrayed by an _____ who gave his plot away
  10. 25. the largest group of whites in the South and they did not own slaves
  11. 26. at the age of 30 she gained her freedom
  12. 27. Vesey was inspired to rebel against slavery by his reading of the ____
  13. 28. One form of slave resistance was by working ____
  14. 29. an African American religious folk song
  15. 30. By 1860 almost all the enslaved people in the South were _____-_____
  16. 32. the laws in the Southern states that controlled enslaved people
  17. 37. The _____ _____ of the rural South were fiercely independent and didn't do enslaved work
  18. 41. a network of safe houses for runaway slaves
  19. 43. ____ percent of the white population in the South owned more than half the slaves
  20. 44. _____ _____ were often captured and returned to the south
  21. 45. led a slave rebellion in Southhampton County Virginia in 1831
  22. 46. Major Southern city in Tennessee where a rail hub was located
  23. 47. Southerners believed that "Cotton is _____"
  24. 48. The _____ family of Louisiana were African Americans who possessed more than 400 slaves
  25. 49. he took over the Tredegar Iron works in Richmond, VA in 1840s and made it the nations leading producer of iron
  26. 50. In 1808 the ____ _____ was outlawed by Congress
  27. 51. in 1800 this slave planned a rebellion in Richmond, VA
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  1. 1. regular expenses such as housing and feeding workers
  2. 2. The Bible and _____ _____ were stressed at Southern private schools
  3. 3. farmers who rented or work on landlords' estates
  4. 8. another form of slave resistance was by breaking _____
  5. 11. _____ became a religion of hope and resistance for slaves
  6. 12. common phrase used when marrying slaves was "until death or ____ do us part."
  7. 13. Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, are four the the states in the _____ _____
  8. 15. Tubman was a conductor on the _____ _____
  9. 16. Vesey was a slave who had purchased his ____
  10. 17. Vesey was inspired by this document to rebel
  11. 19. Major Southern city in Georgia where a rail hub was located
  12. 20. _____ provided a way for enslaved African Americans to communicate
  13. 21. Enslaved people were supervised by an _____
  14. 22. Turner was a popular ____ leader among the slaves
  15. 23. most enslaved African Americans were _____ _____
  16. 31. He was born into slavery then escaped into the North
  17. 33. Led a slave revolt in Charleston SC in 1821
  18. 34. a form of a loan
  19. 35. a crop of the upper south that has killed millions of people
  20. 36. The job of _____ _____ was to watch over slaves who worked in the home and care for the sick
  21. 37. city were Tubman resided
  22. 38. plantation owners and those who could afford sent their children to _____ _____
  23. 39. Tubman was consider "_____ of her people"
  24. 40. invention that removed the seeds from cotton and increased the demand for slaves
  25. 42. he opened a textile mill in Charleston, SC in 1844