| Term | Definition |
| Cotton Gin | What agricultural invention increased the number of slaves needed for labor in the Deep South? |
| Large Landowners | The growing importance of cotton to the South created an economy and a society dominated by |
| Rigid Social Class System | The slave-based agricultural system in the South encouraged the development of this. |
| Plantation Owners | This group had the most political power prior to the Civil War. |
| Nat Turner | was an American slave who led the slave rebellion that resulted in the most fatalities in the pre Civil War southern United States |