| A | B |
|---|
| geography | the climate and the natural features of an area |
| natural features | nature-made (mountains, rivers, plains, valleys, inlets, etc.) |
| climate | weather over a long period of time |
| economy | the way an area makes its money; businesses |
| plantation | a large area of privately owned land where crops were grown through the labor of workers (slaves) |
| cotton gin | simple machine that used rotating combs to separate cotton seeds from fiber |
| Eli Whitney | man who invened the cotton gin |
| slave | a person who was forced to do labor and who was treated as property |
| Industrial Revolution | change from work being done by hand to work being done by machines |
| transportation | a way of getting from one place to another |
| cash crops | crops, such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton, raised in large quantities in order to be sold for a profit |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | first textile factory in USA- (cloth-making) |
| Elias Howe | invented the sewing machine |
| Cyrus McCormick | invented the reaper |
| reaper | cut grain faster; able to harvest large amounts of wheat |
| transportation in the North | railroads |
| transportation in the South | boats |
