The Cotton Gin

Who invented the famous cotton gin?

• Eli Whitney

• Eli Young

• Abraham Lincoln

• Benjamin Franklin

The nickname given to cotton.

• white gold
• Emperor Crop
• Carolina Cash
• King Cotton

What made the cotton gin such a useful invention?

• It was invented by the great Eli Whitney.

• It removed seeds from cotton quickly.

• It increased slave labor.

• It became the South's main way to make money.

The cotton gin helps pick the seeds off of cotton more quickly. How did the cotton gin increase the need for slaves?

• It was a very complicated machine. So, more slaves were needed to operate it.

• Now that more cotton could be processed quickly, more cotton needed to be grown and picked.

• Only the large plantations used the cotton gin. Smaller plantations still picked the seeds of the cotton off by hand.

• Slaves still needed to pick through the cotton and pull out the seeds.

What is TRUE about the cotton gin?

• It made the economy lose money.

• It was used in the northern states.

• Slavery spread because more crops were planted.

• Slaves were not needed anymore.