13 South

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

• cotton

• hemp

• silk

• textiles

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

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

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

the unjust or poor treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

• spirituals

• discrimination

• folk tales

• slave codes

A system of work discipline used on southern cotton plantations in the mid-1800s which white overseers or black drivers supervised gangs of enslaved laborers to achieve greater productivity. All workers work on the same task at the same time. Workers age 10 and older worked from sunup to sundown.

• gang labor system

• slave codes

• task system

• yeomen

Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights. Prohibited slaves from traveling far away from home.

It was also illegal for slaves to read or write.

• discrimination

• slave codes

• spirituals

• factors

Slave stories told with a moral to teach how to survive under slavery.

• folk tales

• slave codes

• spirituals

• factors