Guided Reading Activity 13-3

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Guided Reading Activity 13-3

• Recalling the Facts

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• 1. Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina
• 2. Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi,
  Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas
• 3. Cotton
• 4. Tobacco depended on foreign markets, so its
  price varied. Tobacco stripped the nutrients
  from the soil. Rice could not be grown in the dry
  climate in inland areas

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• 5. it required irrigation canals and costly
  machinery
• 6. the growth of the British textile industry
• 7. Eli Whitney
• 8. a machine that removed seeds from the cotton
  fibers
• 9. because the cotton gin processed cotton so
  quickly, farmers wanted to grow more cotton and
  thus needed more slaves to plant and harvest the
  cotton.

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• 10. The Upper South still produced tobacco, wheat
  and vegetables. The Deep South was committed to
  cotton, sugarcane and rice
• 11. Reasons for not much industry in the South
• 1. The boom in cotton sales
• 2. lack of capital ti invest in businesses
• 3. there was only a small market in the
  south for manufactured goods
• 4. Southerners did not want industry

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• 12. William Gregg and Joseph Reid Anderson
• 13. Southern rail lines were short, local and did
  not connect all parts of the region in a network
• 14. about 1/3

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Guided Reading Activity 13-4

• 1. yeoman
• 2. tenant farmers
• 3. profits
• 4. accountants
• 5. domestic slaves
• 6. field hands
• 7. overseer
• 8. family life

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• 9. network
• 10. slave codes
• 11. read or write
• 12. Harriet Tubman
• 13. underground railroad
• 14. opportunities
• 15. charity