Chapter 9 Vocabulary Quiz #1-35

Study guide

Black belt

Dark soil to grow cotton

Capital

Investment money

Cotton gin

Seperate seeds from cotton

Credit

A loan

Fixed costs

Regular expenses

Plantation

Large farm with slaves

Purchased

To buy

Slave codes

Laws restricting slaves

Tenant farmers

Land renter and day laborer

Yeomen

Farm owner with no slaves

Overseer

A plantation manager

Rural poor

Farm laborers that work for others / does not own land

Planter

A person who owns large farms with slaves

“Cotton is King”

A saying in the south to express how cotton was fueling southern economy

Upper South

Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina

Deep South

Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas, and Texas.

Eli Whitney

The person who invented the cotton gin

Sum

A total/summary

Fixed costs

Regular maintenence

Predominantly

For the most part

Exceed

Went over

Constant

Occuring continuously

Communicate

Share of exchange information, news, etc.

Spiritual

A religious song

Slave codes

Laws in the southern states that controlled enslaved people

Nat Turner

Thirty-year-old Virginia slave who led a bloody rebellion that resulted in the death of fifty-five whites, mostly women and children.

Harriet Tubman

A slave born in Maryland who worked in plantations until near 30 and made an escape for freedom. She was also an African-American leader who was born into slavery.

Frederick Douglass

An American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. Also, an African-American leader who was born into slavery.

Runaway

Slaves who tried running away to find freedom from their plantations.

Underground Railroad

A network of safe houses owned by free blacks and whites who opposed slavery.