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King Cotton and Life in the South

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Page 439: Don't click until you're on 439 so you don't forget the page number.

a)

✓

b)

⇦ Click That One

2.

What shaped the way of life in the South? [click 2]

a)

cotton plantations

b)

factories

c)

slavery

d)

railroads

3.

What greatly increased the demand for southern cotton?

a)

Fruit of the Loom

b)

Western farmers

c)

the Industrial Revolution

4.

Removing the seeds from the cotton by hand was a _____________________________.

a)

rapid process

b)

slow process

5.

Who invented the cotton engine (gin)?

a)

Samuel Morse

b)

Robert Fulton

c)

Eli Whitney

d)

John Deere

6.

A single worker using a cotton gin could do the work of how many people cleaning cotton by hand?

a)

40

b)

50

c)

60

d)

60.2

7.

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

a)

the Deep South

b)

the Southern Belt

c)

Plantation Row

d)

the Cotton Kingdom

8.

What spread with the Cotton Kingdom?

a)

soil depletion

b)

migrant workers

c)

slavery

d)

cross pollination

9.

Planters used profits from slave labor to do what?

a)

invest in Northern factories

b)

buy more land and more enslaved workers

10.

Skip to page 442: Limited Southern Industry

a)

OK

b)

<---- That One

11.

The South lagged behind the North in what?

a)

agriculture

b)

mining

c)

fishing

d)

manufacturing

12.

Rich planters invested their money in what?

a)

factories

b)

land and enslaved African Americans

13.

With little industry of its own, the South came to depend more and more on who? [click two]

a)

themselves

b)

the North

c)

the West

d)

Europe

14.

Southerners believed they could look to the future with confidence so long as what?

a)

Northerners stayed out

b)

they didn't have foreign competition

c)

cotton remained king

15.

This Quizizz is done but continue reading this chapter to the end on page 450.

a)

OK

b)

<----- CTO (Click That One)