| A | B |
|---|
| Savannah | Georgia's largest city in 1860 |
| acadamies | where the wealthy Georgians sent their children to school |
| Crawford Long | doctor who first used ether as an anesthetic |
| cotton gin | removed the seeds from the cotton fiber |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
| Milledgeville | location of the first insane asylum in Georgia |
| short fiber cotton | grown in the Coastal Plain and Piedmont whihc yielded more cotton per acre than other types of cotton |
| Augusta | location of the first medical college of Georgia |
| field schools | first schools in rural areas |
| antebellum | means before the war |
| slavery | an issue which divided northern and southern churches |
| Fall Line | an area that supported cotton production because of the soil, climate, and water power |
| Great Revival | Protestant religious movement that swept through the south |
| Weslyan | first women's college in the the country |
| Macon | location of the first school for the blind |
| free blacks | lived in the cities for a better chance at finding work |
| farming | most common occupation in Georgia in 1860 |
| Gullah | slave language made of English and African languages |
| Joel Chandler Harris | retold the slave stories of Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit |
| trickster tales | slave stories about how to outwit an opponent using cleverness |
