Ch 14 Sec 1

What was responsible for increasing the domestic slave trade in the early 1800s?

• Stronger types of cotton began to emerge as a result of crossbreeding

• An act of Congress banned the importation of slaves into the country

• Some leaders wanted the South to grow a greater variety of crops

• Farmers eager for profits headed west in search of land to grow cotton

Why did the value of slaves drop in the South following the American Revolution?

• Crop prices fell and the demand for slaves decreased

• Slaves launched rebellions throughout the South

• Slaves began to escape to the North

• The practice of slavery became unpopular in the South

What was the "cotton belt"?

• The southern region east of the Mississippi that produced two-thirds of the cotton grown in the United States

• Fields in Mexico where agricultural scientists worked to cross breed short-staple cotton with Mexican cotton

• An area stretching from South Carolina to Texas that grew most of the country's cotton crop

• A long stretch of land in the South where short-staple cotton crops were wiped out by disease in the 1830s

Match the following

• domestic

• Cotton made up more than ________of all U.S. exports.

• half

• After it became illegal to bring slaves to the United States, slaveholders began selling slaves within the country in the _________ slave trade.

• demand

• By 1860 the South was producing _________ of all cotton grown in the United States.

• cotton

• U.S. farmers had trouble keeping up when the growing textile industry raised the _______ for cotton.

• two thirds

• The development of _______ as a cash crop raised the demand for slaves.