WorksheetsKing Cotton and Life in the South
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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What shaped the way of life in the South? [click 2]
cotton plantations
factories
slavery
railroads
What greatly increased the demand for southern cotton?
Fruit of the Loom
Western farmers
the Industrial Revolution
Removing the seeds from the cotton by hand was a _____________________________.
rapid process
slow process
Who invented the cotton engine (gin)?
Samuel Morse
Robert Fulton
Eli Whitney
John Deere
A single worker using a cotton gin could do the work of how many people cleaning cotton by hand?
40
50
60
60.2
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
What spread with the Cotton Kingdom?
soil depletion
migrant workers
slavery
cross pollination
Planters used profits from slave labor to do what?
invest in Northern factories
buy more land and more enslaved workers
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The South lagged behind the North in what?
agriculture
mining
fishing
manufacturing
Rich planters invested their money in what?
factories
land and enslaved African Americans
With little industry of its own, the South came to depend more and more on who? [click two]
themselves
the North
the West
Europe
Southerners believed they could look to the future with confidence so long as what?
Northerners stayed out
they didn't have foreign competition
cotton remained king
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