Key Terms/Figures
Definition of Capital.
What is money to invest in businesses?
The place that most Southerners lived during the 1700s.
What is the Upper South?
How the cotton gin worked.
What is removed seeds from the cotton fiber?
The reason the North was different from the South.
What is North was based on manufacturing and had no slaves while the South had slaves and was based on agriculture?
The reason slaves stunted growth of industry.
What is they were too broke to buy merchandise?
Definition of Cotton Gin.
What is a machine that removes seeds from cotton fiber?
What is the Deep South?
Workers could clean ___ times more cotton with the cotton gin.
What is 50?
People felt that the South depended on the ___ too much for manufactured goods.
What is North?
Others flat out did not ___ industry in the South.
What is want?
The person who invented the Cotton Gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The thing that the South bases their economy on.
What is slavery?
The advantages of the cotton gin.
What is being portable, processing fibers quickly, and allowing more cotton to be grown?
The two men that opened their own factories in the south.
Who are William Gregg and Joseph Reid Anderson?
The typical method of transportation in the South.
What are natural waterways?
The person who opened his own textile factory.
Who is William Gregg?
The crops that were mainly grown during colonial times.
What is rice, indigo, and tobacco?
The results/consequences of the Cotton Gin.
What is it processed cotton so quickly that southerners needed more slaves in order to make more cotton for profit?
These men were the ___ rather than the rule.
What is exception?
The reason Southern towns grew slower than Northern cities.
What is because railroad tracks were short and not interlinked?
The person who took over Tredegar Iron Works and made it a leading iron producer.
Who is Joseph Reid Anderson?
The negatives of growing cotton.
What is it being time consuming and being a pain to separate seeds from fiber?
What cotton planters said about the Cotton Gin.
What is it was the "most perfect and most valuable invention?"
The reason industry growth was slow in the South.
What is cotton was very profitable and they didn't have to invest in capital so they were making a ton of money?
The portion of the nation's rail lines that were in the South by 1860.
What is about 1/3?