The South 1 Jeopardy Template

Growth of the cotton industry	Southern society	Slavery	Religion	Working Life
100 What were the three crops that attracted the southern agriculture? Tobacco, rice, and indigo	100 By what year cotton grew rapidly? By the early 1790s	100 About how many slaves lived in the south in 1860? About 250,000 African Americans	100 What are spirituals? Folk songs that mixed African and European music and were often religious in nature.	100 Field-workers in the South had a job which was to separate what from the cotton fibers? seeds
200 Who invented the cotton gin and what year was it invented? Eli Whitney in 1806	200 False True or False: Cotton grew in large parts in the South so that meant there wasn’t many cotton plantations	200 Fill in the blank: Most of the slaves lived in the countryside and worked as ————————-. Paid farmers	200 What did wealthy white southerners argue? They argued that God created some people, like themselves, to rule others.	200 List three things the southern people couldn't do. Travel, vote & have jobs
300 What was known as the high production of cotton? The cotton belt	300 What happens to the prices of the crops? How did it affect the slave workers salaries? The workers salaries are low and the prices drop too.	300 How did African Americans represent their business? By letting white southerners represent their business.	300 How did Rural woman play a role in churches? Rural women often played volunteer roles in their churches.	300 Fill in the blank: Agriculture was the ________ of the southern economy, and cotton was king. heart
400 Fill in the blank: Cotton had a high advantage of becoming a ———crop. cash	400 It greatly increased in slavery How did cotton transform the southern society?	400 How did white southerners justify the reason for slavery? Many white southerners used this to justify the reason that slavery could stay.	400 Who was Nat Turner? How did his religion play a big role in his life? Nat Turner was born into slavery in Virginia. As a child, he learned to read and write and became an enthusiastic reader of the Bible. He soon gained a reputation in the local slave community for his religious beliefs. Enslaved people regularly gathered in forest clearings to listen to his powerful sermons.	400 How did sickness affect their slavery life? sickness and poor weather rarely served as reasons to stop working.
500 Fill in the blank: Cotton had a high advantage of becoming a ———crop. The early 1790s	500 How did planters influenced the colony's? When they showed off their mansions, and bragged how wealthy they were.	500 Did men , women , and children were forced to work whenever their slaveholders demanded to? ( true or false ) True	500 How did this religion help people in slavery? Answer Varies	1000 Explain who was Nat Turner? Bibliography:

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