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