11.2 Open Note

The title of this lesson was

• Plantations and Slavery
• New England Factories
• Louisiana Purchase
• Eli Whitney's Invention

When Catherine Beale was asked what games she had played as a child, she replied that 

• slave children didn't have any chances to play
• she played with her master's children until she was old enough to work in the field

The invention of the cotton gin, and the demand for cotton caused _____ to spread in the South.

• slavery
• textile factories
• religious gatherings
• spirituals (religious folk songs)

Who invented the cotton gin? 

• Frederick Douglass
• Abraham Lincoln
• Eli Whitney
• Thomas Jefferson

The cotton gin cleaned the seeds out of the cotton, and 

• increased the amount of cotton that could be cleaned per day by a worker
• slowed down the amount of cotton that could be cleaned per day by a worker
• caused labor disputes in the textile mills that the cotton was sent to

When planters (farmers, plantation owners) saw that cotton could be cleaned faster with a cotton gin, they 

• realized they didn't need as many workers, and reduced their reliance on slave labor
• realized that cotton could be more profitable, and increased their reliance on slave labor
• held a garage sale to get rid of old tools that they no longer needed

When the cotton gin made cotton growing so much more profitable, planters wanted even more slaves.  They also 

• bought or settled on more land, in order to grow more cotton
• sold off land, since they didn't need so much now

Cotton grown in the American south was sent to ____ to be milled into cloth for clothing.

• England and New England (the Northeast)
• Africa and northern Europe
• New lands of the Louisiana Purchase

As cotton profits rose, so did the 

• frequency of Gulf hurricanes
• the importation of new slaves from Africa
• the price of slaves

What became illegal in 1808?

• SLAVERY
• IMPORTATION  of Africans to use as slaves
• TOBACCO growing