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1 HOMEWORK CHAPTER 7 2/1/16 “The Plantation South” PAGES 270-274

2 1. Explain the effect Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin had on cotton production and slavery in the South? 2. Who dominated southern society? 3. What argument did the Southerners make about slavery in the South versus the free labor system in the North?

3 270-274 4. What percent of African Americans in the South were free? 5. What often happened to free African Americans? 6. What did a Kentucky court rule about the treatment of slaves?

4 7. What was the only real protection slaves had from being whipped to death? 8. What songs did slaves sing to help them cope with the evils of slavery? 9. Why did Nat Turner lead a slave revolt? 10. How were Northern textile mills and Southern cotton plantations linked?


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