Section+2+Vocabulary

__Vocab__
 * __Eli Whitney-__** an inventor who invented the cotton gin in 1793 after visiting a Georgia plantation of Catherine Greene


 * __Cotton Gin__**- a machine invented in 1793 that cleaned cotton much faster and far more efficiently than human workers

__**Spirituals-**__ religoius folk songs




 * __Nat Turner-__** a slave who led the most famous rebellion in Virginia in 1831. He and 70 followers killed 55 white men, women, and children.

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