Chapter 13

  • Demand for american cotton began to increase

  • Haitian revolution

  • Eli Whitney pattened the cotton gin

  • Many slaves were Christian

  • Top 3 corn growing states were in ythe south

  • Nat Turners Rebellion

  • Most of rebelling slaves are captured

  • Nat Turner was excecuted

  • A slave discovered a way to speed the drying process up

  • entrepreneurs in Georgia began investing in cotton mills

  • Anderson became the owner of the tregers iron works

  • a young Georgia man wanted to be a farmer

  • skave system

  • 1 in 50 African Americans were free in the South

  • Lucy Breckinridge was married by arrangement