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16 Cards in this Set
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a machine that removes seed from short-staple cotton
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cotton gin
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large scale farmers who held more than 20 slaves
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Planters
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an area of high cotton production
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cotton belt
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crop brokers; managed trade between southern planters and their customers
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factors
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one of the most productive factories of iron works in the nation located in Richmond Virginia
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Tredegar Iron Works
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owners of small farms
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yeomen
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stories with a moral
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folktales
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emotional Christian songs that blended African and European music
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spirituals
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the most violent slave revolt in the United States which occurred in 1831
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
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patented and perfected the cotton gin; later invented his idea for interchangeable parts
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Eli Whitney
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South Carolina politician; declared "Cotton is King" and claimed the world economy would fail without cotton
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James Henry Hammond
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followed advice of Hinton Rowan Helper and became the owner of Tredegar Iron Works
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Joseph R. Anderson
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planned a rebellion near Richmond, Virginia
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Gabriel Prosser
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planned a rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina; executed as the leader of the Charleston conspiracy
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Denmark Vesey
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slave from Southampton Country Virginia; believed that God had told him to end slavery, American slave leader
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Nat Turner
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wife of an elite leader of the Confederacy; recorded family's experiences in a series of diaries
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Mary Boykin Chesnut
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