The South

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Across
  1. 2. This is another one of the cash crops the South was focused on in addition to cotton, it can be eaten.
  2. 5. There were ______ million enslaved black people at the time.
  3. 7. This is how many pounds of cotton that a cotton gin could clean in one day.
  4. 8. The enslaved Africans were treated like human "_______".
  5. 11. This is the movement or nickname for people that wanted slavery to be outlawed.
  6. 12. These people were treated like _______________
  7. 14. This is the term used to describe a state leaving a country.
  8. 15. A very large farming operation that relied on slaves in the Southern US.
  9. 16. Those who did not own ________ were at the bottom of society just above the slaves.
  10. 17. This is the percentage of the world's cotton that the south was producing.
Down
  1. 1. This is one of the cash crops the South was focused on in addition to cotton, it can be smoked.
  2. 3. This machine was made to help clean cotton faster.
  3. 4. This is how much of the enslaved population counted towards the total state population.
  4. 6. This is the word used to describe an area that is very focused on production of goods like with factories.
  5. 9. Cotton very quickly became the ______________ of the southern economy.
  6. 10. The southerners didn't want Northerners _________ with their way of life, so they wanted to leave.
  7. 13. This is a sweet tasting cash crop that was grown in the South.