Cotton Gin, Missouri Compromise, & Monroe Doctrine

Who invented the "Cotton Gin"?

• Eli Whitney

• Andrew Jackson

• Alexander Granbell

Why did Eli Whitney take a job in assisting a plantation manager in Georgia?

• Good way to study slaves

• Learn that his salary was half of what he'd been told

Before the invention of the "Cotton Gin", how did Enslaved workers clean the seed from the cotton?

• they used a Rake

• soaked the cotton in oil to seperate

• By hand

Why was the Cotton gin Invented?

• to speed up the process of seperating the cotton seed from the cotton

• to attract more slaves to work on the plantations

• to be famous

according to the video who could power the cotton gin?

• Worker

• animal

• water wheel

• all of the above

The Cotton gin enabled a worker to clean __________ times more cotton than cleaning by hand.

• 5 times

• 15 times

• 7 times

• 10 times

"True or False" ( the invention of the cotton gin reduced the need or want for more slaves)

• True

• False

What was the "Negative" effect of the Cotton Gin"?

• Spurred a huge growth in cotton planting.

• Cause a mini civil war

• The machine would always break down

• none of the above

Why did Plantation slave owners want to expand slavery with the invention of the cotton gin?

• to create more Slave states for power in congress

• For Huge Profits

• To be able to capture more runaway slaves

With the invention of the Cotton Gin, the South produce 3 million Lbs of cotton in 1792, in 1797 they produced 11 million Lbs. Thats a 5 year difference.

Question- how many pounds per year was produced '" you will have 5 minutes to answer this question"

• 1. 6 million per year

• 1 million per year

• 2 million per year

• 1.5 million per year