Chapter 12, Section 1

He is the inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.

• Samuel Slater
• Richard Arkwright
• Eli Whitney

What invention caused the cotton boom in the South?

• Gin
• The Cotton Machine
• The Cotton Gin
• The Waterframe

How did the South make most of its money?

• Factories
• Agriculture
• Trade
• Timber

What plant was king in the South?

• Tobacco
• Indigo
• Cotton
• Rice

What was the economy of the South based on?

• Agriculture
• Mining
• Industry
• Warfare

What does this picture represent

• Farming Life
• Industrial Life
• Plantation Life
• Slave Life

What invention solved the problem of the difficult and time-consuming process of removing seeds from short-staple cotton?

• Seed Separator
• Cotton Reaper
• Steel plow
• Cotton Gin

Advantages to the cotton crop were:

• cost little to  transport because it was lightweight and was highly profitable
• It was so delicious to eat and therefore popular and people paid well for it.
• It could be grown anywhere- hot and cold climates, places with rocky soil or flat ground.

Planters in the South increased their use of slave labor to supply more cotton to the northern___.

• critics of slavery
• textile industry
• unequal treatement
• system of slavery

What was Tredegar?

• A space alien from Guardians of the Galaxy
• A town in Sweden that exported Iron to America during the Civil War
• The largest iron/steel factory in the South
• The largest iron/steel factory in the North