Resistance

Eli Whitney's cotton gin had what effect on the South's economy?

• The south began to build more factories & mills to compete with the North

• Southern planters added cotton to other cash crops to make a balanced agricultural economy

• Southern planters wanted to make as much money as possible so they focused entirely on cotton

• Southerners changed the production of cotton because they still had trouble getting it to grow in most of the South

With more demand for cotton, came a greater demand for _______

• tobacco

• enslaved workers

• boats

• indentured servants

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

What greatly increased the demand for southern cotton?

• Transportation Revolution

• Western farmers

• the Industrial Revolution

The area of plantations in the South from South Carolina to Texas became known as what?

• the Deep South

• the Southern Belt

• Plantation Row

• the Cotton Kingdom

Planters used profits from slave labor to do what?

• invest in Northern factories

• buy more land and more enslaved workers

How did cotton and slavery benefit Northern states?

• They sold tobacco to slaves in the South.

• They sold food to the the South to feed slaves.

• They imported slaves to sell to the South to produce cotton.

• They bought cotton to use in their textile mills.

The economy of the south was based on _________.

• manufacturing
• agriculture
• tourism
• trade

The economy of the north was based on ___________.

• manufacturing

• agriculture

• livestock

• tourism

They owned most of the land and 20 or more slaves.

• The "Cottonacracy" or

  plantation owners

• poor whites

• Yoemen Farmers or small farmers

• freed blacks