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| antebellum | term meaning "before the war" referring to life before the civil war. |
| cotton gin | machine invented by Eli Whitney to remove the seed from cotton. |
| poor school system | state-funded schools established in Georgia to educate needy children. |
| old feild schools | schools in Georgia that changed tuition for a very basic education for a few months a year when children were not needed on the farm. |
| planters | wealthy whites who owned 20 or more slaves to work on their plantations. |
| plantations | large farms extending over hundreds of acres. |
| overseer | person hired to take charge of the farming operations on plantations. |
| yemon farmers | farmers in the pine barrens of the Coastal Plain and Piedmont regions of Georgia who grew crops on a few acres of land. |
| field hands | slaves that plowed, hoed, and harvested crops on plantations. |
| house slaves | slaves that cooked , cleaned, sewed, made goods, and cared for the plantation owners children. |
| Terminus | the point at which the first stake of the Western and Atlantic railroad was driven in 1937 marking the beginning of the modern day Atlanta. |
