7-3 Quizizz

Match the following vocabulary.

• cultivate

• a name for the wealthy planters who made their money from cotton in the mid-1800s

• boom

• laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights

• "cottonocracy"

• a period of rapid economic growth

• slave code

• to prepare and work soil for planting and growing crops

Who invented the cotton gin in 1793?

• Eli Whitney

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

One result of the invention of the cotton gin was an ​ (a)   in the demand for slave labor.

• increase
• decrease

What was the main reason for the increase in slave labor in the south?

• Cotton needed to be planted and picked by hand

• Need for more agricultural land

• Invention of the cotton gin

• Industrialization of the North

By the 1830s, which crop became the most important in the U.S.?

• Tobacco

• Cotton

• Rice

• Sugar

What was the area from South Carolina to Texas known as, due to its heavy reliance on cotton?

• The Cotton Kingdom

• The Slave States

• The Golden Belt

• The Plantation Zone

What was the main economic activity in the South?

• Technology

• Mining

• Agriculture

• Industry

What percentage of the southern population did the 'cottonocracy' represent?

• Around 25 percent

• Less than 1 percent

• More than 50 percent

• About 10 percent

What laws attempted to keep slaves from running away or rebelling?

• The Civil Rights Act

• The Fugitive Slave Laws

• The Slave Codes

• The Emancipation Proclamation

Which of the following was NOT listed as a hardship faced by enslaved African Americans?

• Beatings and brutality

• Worked from dawn to dusk

• Families split up

• Freedom to travel