| A | B |
|---|
| agriculture | farming |
| cotton gin | machine used to separate fiber from the seeds |
| planter | farmer who owned more that 20 slaves |
| cotton belt | region from South Carolina to Texas |
| domestic slave trade | selling people within our country |
| 2/3 | South producing cotton in the U.S. |
| 1/2 | Cotton made up of U.S. exports |
| 1/3 | Amount of people in the South that owned slaves |
| short staple | type of cotton grown in the south |
| Great Britain | South's main trading partner |
| New Orleans | major port city for trading |
| factors | crop brokers that managed trade |
| lumber | other important bussiness in the south |
| yeomen | small landowing farmers |
| Charleston | writers gathered in this city |
| Nat Turner | led a rebelliion to kill planters familes |
| overseer/driver | in charge of slaves and punishment |
| Harriet Tubman | escaped to Penn. and led other slaves to freedom |
| Fredrick Douglas | leader in the Civil Rights movement for slaves |
| abolition | people who supported an end to slavery |
| Emancipation | freedom from slavery |
| Underground RR | way to escape to the north |
| conductors | people who helped slaves escape |
