Chapter 12 Test South

The nickname given to cotton.

• white gold
• Emperor Crop
• Carolina Cash
• King Cotton

The economy of the south was based on _________.

• manufacturing
• agriculture
• tourism
• trade

What was the major flaw with the short staple cotton that could be grown in most of the state?

• Cotton plants are very sensitive to frost and die quickly if there is a sudden drop in temp.
• Cotton bolls have very sticky seeds which were difficult and time consuming to remove by hand.
• Cotton must be harvested within 2 days of the boll opening or it would rot.
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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.

This invention by Eli Whitney increased cotton production in Texas

• The Cotton Mill

• The Cotton Gin

• The Cotton Smith

What did the cotton gin do (what task did it perform)?

• picked the cotton fiber from the plant
• separated the seed from the cotton fiber
• planted the cotton seed in the ground
• spun the cotton fiber into thread

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

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

Abolitionists were ____________________

• Those who wanted to join Canada

• those who wanted to separate from the North

• those who supported slavery

• those who opposed slavery.