Cotton Gin

The economy of the south was based on _________.

• manufacturing
• agriculture
• tourism
• trade

The cotton gin processes cotton more quickly, so why did the invention of the cotton gin increase the need for slaves even though it reduced the need for labor for seed removal?

• It was an extremely complicated machine.  Therefore, more slaves were needed to operate and repair it.
•  Now that more cotton could be processed quickly, more cotton needed to be grown and picked.
• Only the large plantations used the gin.  Smaller plantations still processed cotton by hand.
• The cotton gin only gathered the fiber and crushed the cotton seeds.  Slaves still physically picked through the fibers and pulled out the seeds.

The man who invented the cotton gin was...

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

The invention of the cotton gin increased the efficiency of cotton production and actually increased the demand for this

• Water Power
• Coal
• FIre
• Slaves

What is meant by cleaning cotton?

• Washing it in soapy water

• Boiling the fibers until the seeds melt

• Picking the tiny seeds from the bolls of cotton

• Hanging cotton in dry spaces until the cotton is clean

The nickname given to cotton.

• White Gold

• Emperor Crop

• Carolina Cash

• Queen Cotton

Which is TRUE regarding the cotton gin?

• It made more people see and admit the evils of slavery
• It caused demand for slaves to drastically increase
  
• It made cotton easier to plant
• It was invented by James Monroe

Eli Whitney saw the need and created the cotton gin to separate the _____________ from the __________________.

• cotton fibers, seeds

• cotton boll, stem

• stem, seeds

• seeds, nails

Before the cotton gin, it could take an enslaved laborer a whole day to clean _____ pound of cotton by hand.

• one

• ten

• fifty

• one hundred

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

• 50

• 75

• 25

• 100