Cotton Trade
Cotton boom
Cotton becomes profitable
Eli whitney
Before/ After the revolution.
100
who was america's greatest trading partner for cotton?
Britain.
100
When the cotton boom happened, what did the farmers abandon?
other crops
100
What needs to be removed from the cotton before weaving it into cloth?
What is the seeds
100
What machine did Eli Whitney create that removes seeds from short staple cotton?
What is the cotton gin.
100
What three crops dominated the south before the american revolution?
What is Tobacco, Rice and Indigo?
200
What did the cotton boom make the south?
A major player in world trade.
200
What is the cotton belt?
An area of high cotton production
200
Which cotton was easier to remove their seeds? Long saple or short staple?
What is long staple.
200
What is "gin" short for?
What is engine?
200
The people who produced crops.
Who are Afro- Amercan's?
300
Who did the farmers sell their crops to that sold them to factors?
merchants
300
By 1791 how many pounds of cotton was being produced?
2million pounds.
300
Why was removing seeds from short staple cotton time consuming?
The seeds were sticky and/or it took all day for 1 pound of cotton.
300
what are planters?
large scale farmers who held more than 20 slaves.
300
What happened to the prices for crops after the american revolution?
They went down
400
What happened to the slave demand during the cotton boom?
It got larger and slaves were in high demand.
400
By 1860 how many pounds of cotton were being produced.
Billion pounds.
400
When was cotton becoming profitable?
Early 1790s
400
who bought a lot of cotton gins?
Who are planters.
400
What happened to the slave demand after the revolution?
It went down.
500
Who declared that "Cotton is King!"
who is James Henry Hammond
500
In what year was the US producing more than half of the cotton grown in the entire world?
What is 1840?
500
Why did britain need cotton?
they had a new textile factory that needed raw cotton.
500
What year was the cotton gin created?
1793
500
Why did farmers try to grow crops that required less labor?
Because the slave demand went down?
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