Unit 5 Review

Who invented the cotton gin?

• John Deere

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Slater

• Samuel Morse

The cotton gin can do the work of how many men?

• 50

• 75

• 25

• 100

What was central to many in southern social life?

• cotton

• slavery

• religion

• industry

The time before the war

• antebellum
• cotton
• elite
• social class

What cash crop helped the economy of South Carolina after the Revolutionary War? 

• Cotton
• Rice
• Indigo

How did the invention of the Cotton Gin change cotton production?

• cleaned cotton faster
• increased the need for slavery
• raised the economy of cotton planters
• all of the answers

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a free state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Alabama

The Missouri Compromise Line determined the status of slavery in future states.  North of the line slavery was ___________ or banned, South of the line slavery was _________.

• permitted, prohibited
• prohibited, permitted or allowed
• sometimes prohibited, never allowed
• cheap, expensive

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

• It created new taxes for railroad construction.
• It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
• It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves
• It added California as a slave state