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| What crops transformed the southern economy and greatly increased the demand for slave labor? |
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| What was the difference between long-staple cotton and short-staple cotton? |
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| long-staple cotton was easier to process |
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| What did Eli Whitney patent in 1793? |
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| What revolutionized the cotton industry? |
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| What area became known as the cotton belt? |
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| Name three advantages of cotton as a cash crop. |
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1. easy to process
2. made clothes
3. easy to transport |
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| What was disadvantage of growing cotton? |
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| rapidly used up the nutrients in the soil which eventually made the ground useless for growing |
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| What were the major port cities at this time? |
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| New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston |
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| What was the south's first major cash crop? |
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| What increased tobacco production? Who invented it? |
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| a process that used heat from burnign charcoal to improve the drying process; a slave (Joseph Raddison?) |
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| What does antebellum mean? |
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| What did white southerners live in fear of? |
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| What was the most violent slave revolt in the country? What happened to Turner? |
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| Nat Turner's revolt; he died; |
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| What did many states do as a result of the slave revolt? |
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