King Cotton - Color by Numbers

1. This invention by Eli Whitney increased cotton production in

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• The cotton smith

  – color blue

• The cotton mill

  – color green

• The cotton gin

  – color brown

2. After the cotton was harvested, it was sent to - in the

East.

• textile

  factories –

  color green

• boom towns –

  color brown

• plantations –

  color red

3. The high demand for cotton after the Civil War created a -

• Cotton Boom –

  color blue

• increase in

  inventions – color

  white

• Indian Wars –

  color red

4. Some of the reasons for the cotton bust include –

• the growth of

  railroads and

  of windmills –

  color orange

• a decrease in

  the cost of

  land and an

  increase in

  slavery – color

  yellow

• drought and boll

  weevils – color

  gray

5. Cotton farming was benefited by the inventions of -

• windmills and

  the steel plow –

  color blue

• barbed wire and

  the automobile –

  color purple

• railroads and

  cattle trails –

  color green

6. Cotton was first grown by the – for cloth to use in the missions.

• American

  colonists –

  color white

• Confederacy –

  color orange

• Spanish – color

  red

7. In addition to the cotton fibers, farmers can also sell the

– and -

• cotton husks

  and cotton

  stalks – color

  green

• cotton hulls and

  cottonseed oil –

  color yellow

• cotton milk and

  cotton greens –

  color red

8. A cotton boom and bust could be described as -

• the cycle of

  growing and

  selling cotton

  to factories in

  the East –

  color yellow

• the impact of the

  steel plow on the

  land in West

  Texas – color

  green

• an increase in

  sales and then

  a decrease in

  sales – color

  orange