| A | B |
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| Cotton Gin | Invention that launched the cotton boom |
| New Types of Cotton | This development helped spread cotton production as far west as Texas |
| Problems with growing Cotton | cotton could not be grwon on the same soil year after year |
| Cotton Farming | Caused slavery to become an institution in the South |
| Rice, Tobacco, and Indigo | Demand for slave labor dropped when prices were lowered after the American Revolution |
| Christianity | By 1800 most slave practiced this religion |
| Cotton Belt | Region that stretched from North Carolina to Texas that produced cotton |
| Nat Turner | He led a violent slave revolt in Virginia in 1831 |
| Slave Codes | Strict Laws passed by state governments to control slaves |
| Gang-labor | A system in which all field hands worked on the same task at the same time |
| Atlantic Coast | The largest and most important cities in the South were located here |
| Free African Americans | In the South they had limited rights and faced discrimination |
| Spirituals | Emotional Christian songs that blended African and European music |
| Eli Whitney | His Cotton Gin machine revolutionized the cotton industry |
| Planters | Wealthiest and most influential class in southern society |
| Churches | served as a place to socialize for free African Americans |
| Drivers | Slave supervisors who were slaves themselves and carried out punishments on fellow slaves |
| Auctions | Slaves feared being separated from families at slave auctions |
| Folktales | Slaves told family histories and folktales to preserve their heritage |
| Invisible | Another name for slave religion |
| Denmark Vesey | Slave executed for planning a rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina |
