| A | B |
|---|
| Eli Whitney | invented a machine to remove seeds from cotton |
| cotton gin | hand cranked cylinder with wire teeth to seperate fibers from seeds |
| cotton belt | region that grew most of the cotton crops |
| factors | crop brokers managed the cotton trade |
| Jean Etienne Bore' | invented a system for processing sugarcane |
| Tredgar Iron Works | factory of iron products owned by J.R. Anderson |
| yeomen | owners of small farms in the south |
| folktales | stories with a moral |
| spirtuals | emotional Christian songs that blended African and European music |
| Nat Turner's Rebellion | August 1831,that killed slaveholders |
| Mark Twain | Samuel Clements, author,who wrote about life on the MIssissippi River |
| Free African Americans | descendants of slaves who had been freed or slaves that had won their freedom |
