SS 9-2 Life in the South
at crossroads of railways
Columbia, Chattanooga, Montgomery, Atlanta
private
South felt that education should be _______ and that the government should not pay for it
working
Southerners couldnt afford to send kids away from________
credit
a loan
tenant farmers
did not own land but worked on rented land
south
fewer people per square mile
not rich and did not own slaves
most farmers in the south were
rich
only ________ Southern kids attended private schools
overseer
plantation manager
profit
plantation owners worked for *hint- fixed costs*
agents in cities
planters sold their cotton to--- cotton exchange
yeomen
poor farmers who did not own slaves but did own land
mid 1800s
public schools opened in South
land, goods, and slaves
real wealth was measured in
fixed cost
regular expenses such as housing and feeding workers and maintaining cotton gins and other equipment
rose and fell
the price of cotton
New Orleans
this city was important- southern city with ports