Ch. 13 - The South

Used to make cloth, thus a huge demand exists. Seeds were difficult to remove.

• cotton

• hemp

• silk

• textiles

He invented the Cotton Gin.

• Eli Whitney

• Richard Arkwright

• Samuel Slater

• John Deere

Hand cranked device with wire teeth to pull cotton fiber away from the seeds.This invention revolutionizes the cotton industry!

• water frame

• steam powered factories

• textiles

• cotton gin

Massive increase in cotton production. By 1860, 2/3 of all U.S. cotton was produced in the Southern states east of the Mississippi River.

• Industrial Revolution

• Cotton Gin

• Cotton Boom

• Mass Production

Large- scale farmers with 20 or more slaves.Were usually wealthy and had great political power.

• planters

• gentry

• yeomen

• indentured slaves

Region from South Carolina to Texas that grew the most cotton.

• Cotton Boom

• Cotton Gin

• Cotton Belt

• Cotton Frame

Use of scientific methods to improve farming.Farmers begin to rotate crops on their land to keep the soil healthy.Fertilizers are also used.

• scientific agriculture

• animal husbandry

• Industrial Revolution

• Mass Productions

The South should secede (break away), because 1) it would make them even wealthier, 2) Great Britain and France would support the South because they needed cotton, and 3) it would ruin the North's textile industries.

• Cotton Boom

• Cotton Gin

• Cotton is King

• Cotton Belt

Crop brokers who sold cotton for farmers.

• Cotton Boomers

• Factors

• Stockers

• Yeomen

a large iron factory that operated in Richmond, Virginia, in the early to mid-1800s. It was one of the most productive factories in the nation.

• Tredegar Iron Works

• Bethlehem Steel

• Birmingham Steel

• US Steel