The Southern Cotton Kingdom

In 1850 Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas were part of which region?

• Deep South
• Dixieland
• Southeast
• Southern Confederacy

What was one of the consequences of the cotton gin?

• Deep South farmers grew more wheat.
• Domestic slave trade increased.
• Plantations hired more tenant farmers.
• Southern factories quickly developed.

Based on the graph, which of the following statements is correct?

• In 1840 there were more miles of railroad track in the South than in the North.
• In 1850 the South more than tripled the miles of tracks it had in 1840.
• In 1860 the amount of tracks in both the North and the South had not increased.
• In all three decades, the North had more miles of tracks than the South.

What did the thriving economy of the South depend on?

• canals
• railroads
• slavery
• tobacco

In general, what did farmers and factory owners in the South use in order to transport their goods?

• Conestoga Wagons

• horse-drawn carts

• natural waterways

• railroads

Which part of the world purchased large quantities of cotton from the South?

• Asia
• Canada
• Europe
• Mexico

What was the main crop of the Deep South?

• cotton
• rice
• sugarcane
• tobacco

One reason for the slow development of industry in the South was that ____.

• planters wanted to sell their land for high prices

• the market for manufactured goods was growing

• agriculture was creating profits

• southern rail lines were all linked together with major cities

One effect of the cotton gin was that ____.

• farmers could plant more cotton in limited space
• the need for enslaved labor decreased
• the seeds of the cotton plant no longer stuck to the fibers
• workers could process more cotton

The man who invented the cotton gin was...

• Samuel Slater
• Michael Rodriguez
• Francis Weber
• Eli Whitney