| A | B |
|---|
| urban | city environment |
| rural | small town or country environment |
| textile | cloth industry |
| cotton gin | used a spiked cylinder to remove seeds from cotton fibers |
| Norbert Rillieux | African American that revolutionized the sugar industry by making the process of refining sugar faster, safer, and less costly |
| slave code | laws that controlled every aspect of the slave's lives |
| spirituals | religious folk songs that blended biblical themes with the realities of slavery |
| revolt | uprising |
| Nat Turner | led the most famous slave revolt in 1831 |
| Eli Whitney | developed the cotton gin in 1793 |
