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  • What were two primary reasons given in the text for why the North and South were in conflict?
    The North freed slaves and South white owners vs. abolitionists
  • Did the cotton production increase? When?
    Yes, in 1850
  • What type of housing did the majority of slaves live in?
    Log cabins chinked with mud
  • Where were the industries that worked with cotton?
    UK and the North
  • What happened in 1808?
    Slaves couldn’t be brought into the USA
  • Who were the powerful people of the South?
    Plantation owners
  • What were some plants they grew in the plantations?
    Indigo, tobacco, rice and cotton
  • The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793
    True
  • What was the name of the ship seized in the successful 1841 revolt that sailed to the British West Indies?
    The Creole
  • The whole family of a white plantation owner gave instructions to the slaves
    True
  • There were slaves in the 18th century
    True
  • Besides Baltimore, what was the only other big city in the South because people preferred to work with crops?
    New Orleans
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