International Demand for Cotton

Multiple Choice

Why was cotton worth so much money?

• it was cheap to produce

• it was produced by enslaved people who weren't paid

• each cotton plant produced 3 lbs of cotton

• there was a lot of farm land

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Why was cotton in such a high demand internationally? 

• people wanted cotton for their clothes

• people wanted cotton for their blankets

• people wanted cotton for their socks

• people wanted cotton for their rugs

Multiple Choice

How much pounds of cotton could the cotton gin remove seeds from in a single day? 

• 25 lbs

• 50 lbs

• 75 lbs

• 80% (4/5)

Multiple Choice

By the Civil War (1860), how much of the world's cotton did the United States produce? 

• 25% (1/4)

• 50% (1/2)

• 75% (3/4)

• 80% (4/5)

Multiple Choice

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

• steam engine

• assembly line

• cotton gin

• machine gun

Multiple Choice

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

• indigo

• tobacco

• cotton

• sugarcane

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

• Northerners

• Southerners

• Both Northerners and Southerners

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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

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

• factories

• indigo

• slavery

• cotton