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__Review __ _  **__ ∙ __****__ How did the invetion of the cotton gin change southern life? __**  __•The Cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney and it changed Southern life by making the Cotton cleaning process more efficient and they could clean as much as 50 pounds of cotton a day. __ _ • How widespread was slaveholding in the South? •In the 1840’s only about 1/10 of the south had large plantations with 20 or more slaves, most white farmers owned few or no slaves. __ •Free African Americans were mostly not permitted to get an education so they couldn't vote; they were not hired by most white employers. Some had to watch their backs to make sure they were not captured and sold into slavery. Some slaves joined slave rebellions which was an extreme form of resistance to slavery. __ _  •Sometimes slave owners split up the kids from their mother and sold them. Some parents stole away to visit their children, even though they knew they were going to get whipped. I think the families must have been very sad to have to been spilt apart. _ •__ ** Who was Nat Turner? ** • Nat Turner was a rebel slave. On August 21,1831 in Virginia, Turner and 70 other followers killed 55 white men, women, and children. After many of his followers were captured and others killed, he was captured and hanged.
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 * __ •What was life like for free, non hired African Americans in the south? __** 
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