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COTTON REVOLUTION
MYSTERY
COTTON KINGDOM
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replaced sugar as the leading world crop
What is Cotton
100
By 1860, about how many slaves were in the South
What is 4 million slaves
100
Where were most slaves concentrated in the U.S.
What is the south
200
Increase in cotton allowed on slave to do the work of
What is 50
200
Cotton Gin ? the output of cotton
What is doubled
200

Congress would not talk about the issue of slavery to avoid conflict in the government

What is House Gag resolution

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This percentage of of the world’s cotton came from the US
What is 3/4
300
monopolistic, small farmers sold their holdings to big plantation owners, led to immigration to the west. Lands became infertile due to over cropping.
What is economic structure of the south
300
Violent slave rebellion, which lead to a general fear of slaves.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion
400
What year and who created the cotton gin ?
What is Eli Whitney in 1783
400
Mccormick Reaper in 1837 harvested
What is grains
400
The differences in ways that the Southern and Northern women where treated
What is moonlight/magnolia tradition
500
the Civil War to indicate the economic dominance of the Southern cotton industry, and that the North needed the South's cotton
What is Cotton King
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all anti-slavery appeals to be tabled without debate in the House of Representatives. In 1835
What is Gag Resolution
500
line along the southern border of Pennsylvania formed the Mason-Dixon line, it was the line dividing free North States from South Slave states.
What is Mason-Dixon Line