King Cotton of the South

Why did cotton replace tobacco in the South?

• Polyester was not catching on.

• The mills and factories up North used cotton.

• The slaves preferred picking cotton.

• Tobacco dropped in price.

Eli Whitney invited this machine,__________, to ___________.

• steamboat, travel down the river

• cotton gin, make cloth

• cotton gin, to clean cotton

• steamboat, to carry horses to other states

What powered the cotton gin?

• electricity

• water, rivers

• solar power

• manpower, cranking it

What was made from all the cotton grown in the South?

• clothes

• building materials

• carpets

• ship sails

With more demand for cotton, came a demand for _______

• tobacco

• slaves

• boats

• indentured servants

Where was all the cotton grown and picked?

• Northwest

• South

• Midwest

• California

Slave Codes were

• how to capture slaves and trade in the Caribbean

• laws and rules that govern the life of a slave

• how to buy and sell slaves

• controlled the price and trade of slaves

Slaves worked Monday through Friday.

• True

• False

• Maybe

Some slaves were taught to read and write on the plantations.

• True

• False

• Maybe

Nat Turner did all the things described except_____________

• terrorized Virginian whites

• freed all the slaves in Virginia

• led a slave rebellion

• killed his owners