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