Plantations and the Spread of Slavery

This machine made it easier for enslaved workers to clean cotton.

• spinning jenny

• spinning wheel

• cotton gin

• cotton jenny

He improved a machine for cleaning cotton in 1793, after visiting the Georgia plantation.

• Frederick Douglass

• Eli Whitney

• Whitey Herzog

• Eli Manning

The cotton gin allowed one worker to clean as much as ___ pounds of cotton a day.

• 5

• 50

• 500

• 5,000

As a result of the improvements Whitney made in the cotton gin, ______ greatly expanded.

• taxes

• the population of the United States

• the freedom slaves enjoyed

• slavery

From 1790 to 1860, ______production rose greatly.

• wheat

• rice

• corn

• tobacco

• cotton

After the invention of the cotton gin, the number of enslaved people in the South decreased.

• True

• False

Using ______labor, the South raised millions of bales of cotton each year.

• slave

• child

• foreign

• women's

• all the answers are correct

As cotton earnings rose, so did the price of ___. A male field hand sold for $300 in the 1790s.

• cotton gins

• cotton

• slaves

• cloth

The slave trade from Africa to America was outlawed in

• 1708

• 1808

• 1908

• 2008

What was the effect that no more slaves could be kidnapped in Africa and brought to the United States?

• The price of slaves in America declined.

• Slavery was abolished in the United States.

• The South decided to free all their slaves

• Slaves already in America became even more valuable.