How the Cotton Gin Saved Slavery

Multiple Select

The MAIN exports from the United States to Europe, before 1790. [Select ALL that APPLY]

• rice

• sugarcane

• tobacco

• indigo

Multiple Choice

What cash crop was added to exports in the early 1790s?

• wheat

• corn

• cotton

• cabbage

Multiple Choice

Prior to the Eli Whitney’s invention in the early 1790s, slavery had actually been....

• GROWING DRAMATICALLY with the United States importing more slaves than ever

• IN DECLINE with some slave owners freeing their own slaves.

• STEADY, neither in decline or growing

• GROWING SLOWLY, with more slaves coming into the South

Multiple Choice

What did Eli Whitney invent in 1793 that helped farming in the South?

• steam engine

• assembly line

• cotton gin

• machine gun

Multiple Select

With Westward Expansion and the pursuit of Manifest Destiny, what spread West with American settlers? [Choose 2]

• factories

• indigo

• slavery

• cotton

Multiple Choice

In the 1790s, America's oldest crops like tobacco were already depleting (using up) farmland as well as....

• rising in value

• not increasing in value

• unpopular

• dropping in value

Multiple Choice

The number (#) of slaves in the United States went from nearly 700,000 in 1790 to _____________________ in 1860.

• 1 million

• 2 million

• 3 million

• 4 million

Multiple Choice

In the 1790s, the textile industry in Great Britain was booming creating a huge international demand for...

• indigo

• tobacco

• cotton

• sugarcane

Multiple Choice

According to Henry Louis Gate Jr., who benefitted from the sale of cotton to the Europeans?

• Northerners

• Southerners

• Both Northerners and Southerners

Multiple Choice

The desire of cotton farmers to make more money and plant more cotton drove up prices of African American slaves in the upper South, which were eventually sold to the deep South. This is sometimes called...

• The Cotton Slavery Highway

• The Second Middle Passage

• The Southern Slavery Connection

• Southern Slavery Line