unit 4 review

Who invented the Cotton Gin?

• George Harrison

• Eli Whitney

• Thomas Singleton

• Matthew Pershing

What did the Cotton Gin do?

• It picked cotton a lot faster than a person could.

• It sowed cotton seeds a lot faster than a person could.

• It spun cotton into thread a lot faster than a person could.

• It removed the seeds from cotton a lot faster than a person could

Which states benefited the most from the Cotton Gin?

• The northern states.

• The southern states.

• The states that had the most factories.

• The states along the western coast.

How did the Cotton Gin affect slavery?

• Plantation owners needed less slaves.

• It didn't affect it.

• Plantation owners needed more slaves.

• Plantation owners no longer needed slaves.

Why did the invention of the Cotton Gin increase the need for more workers?

• Because plantation owners needed more slaves to grow more cotton.

• Because plantation owners need more slaves to pick seeds out of cotton.

• Because plantation owners needed more slaves to make fabric.

• Because they bought a lot of Cotton Gins and needed more slaves.

Why didn't Eli make a lot of money from selling Cotton Gins?

• Not many people needed them.

• Not many people could afford them.

• People started making them without his permission.

• He never sold enough to make a big profit.

How did the technological development of the Cotton Gin impact Georgia's economic growth?

• It caused people to purchase their own machines and grow cotton everywhere.

• It led to tobacco becoming easier to harvest and started cash cropping.

• It caused cotton production to become more profitable, which increased the demand for slave labor.

• It made the production of rice more efficient, which created rice plantations.

Which methods did Georgia use to distribute land in the late 1700s and early 1800s?

• collective bargaining and issuing bonds

• speculation and sharecropping

• the headright system and the land lottery

• the land−use plan and the embargo system

Events in which Georgians had the chance to win the right to buy land from the state were known as __________________.

• headright systems

• land lotteries

• circuit riders

• Yazoo deals

With which topic was the Yazoo fraud concerned?

• Indian lands in north Georgia

• sale of land in western Georgia territory

• ratification of the Constitution in Georgia

• creation of a national park on state property