Southern Economy

Inventor of the machine used to clean cotton

• Eli Whitney

• William Gregg

• Thomas Edison

• Ben Franklin

Area from South Carolina through Alabama and Mississippi to Texas

• Cotton Kingdom

• Bread Basket

• Miners Country

• Louisiana Purchase

Machine used to separate the seeds from the cotton plant

• cotton gin

• cotton spinner

• cotton mill

• cotton loom

Southerner who built a cotton mill modeled on the Lowell mills

• Eli Whitney

• William Gregg

• William Lowell

• Thomas Edison

Even though southerners grew other crops this was the regions leading export.

• cotton

• sugar cane

• indigo

• rice

This was a simple but effective machine that enabled each worker to do the work of 50 people cleaning cotton by hand.

• cotton gin

• cotton mill

• spinning wheel

• automatic loom

Planters soon found out that this wore out if planted with cotton year after year.

• plows

• soil

• slaves

• cotton gin

As the Cotton Kingdom spread so did

• slavery

• factories

• trade

• abolitionists

The South lagged behind the North in this because planters invested in land and slaves rather than in factories.

• wealth

• population

• manufacturing

• trade

With little industry the South depended on the North and Europe for goods such as furniture, machines, and farm tools.

• True

• False