Ch. 13 Test

What was the effect of the creation of the cotton gin?

• Increased cotton production, demand for slave labor

• Abolished slavery in the Southern United States
• Reduced demand for slave labor
• Decreased cotton production

Who invented the cotton gin?

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thomas Edison
• Eli Whitney
• Benjamin Franklin

Before the American Revolution, three crops dominated the southern agriculuture. Which of the following was NOT one of those crops?

• Corn
• Tobacco
• Indigo
• Rice

What was the cotton gins purpose?

• To harvest cotton fibers

• To dye cotton fibers
• To separate cotton fibers from the seeds
• To dry cotton fibers

Large scale farmers who held more than 20 slaves were called?

• planters
• cultivators
• harvesters
• farmers

What effects did the cotton gin have on the southern economy?

• Caused an increase in unemployment
• Increased cotton production and profitability
• Decreased cotton production and profitability
• Led to the decline of agriculture in the region

Who declared "Cotton is king"?

• James Henry Hammond
• Abraham Lincoln
• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson

Where was Tredegar Iron Works located?

• Richmond, Virginia
• Boston, Massachusetts
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Atlanta, Georgia

Why were there fewer industries in the South?

• People thought cash crops were a better investment than industry

• People were poor in the South so industrialization never took off

• The North had all the industry that the country needed

Slavery was on the decline before the invention of the cotton gin.

• True

• False