History: The Cotton Gin Establishes the South

When was the Cotton Gin invented?

1793

The south's economy was based on

Agriculture

What invention revived the South's economy?

Cotton gin

Who invented the Cotton Gin?

Eli Whitney

What did Eli Whitney produce later in life?

He opened a factory which produced guns.

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?

In England.

Why was the cotton gin important?

It removed the cotton seeds from cotton which previously had been removed by hand.

What was significant about the factory that Eli Whitney opened that produced guns?

It was the first factory to use the principle of interchangeable parts.

Did Eli Whitney receive royalties for the cotton gin?

No.

Before the revolutionary war, the south's economy was based on what three products?

Rice, tobacco, indigo

Why had the demand for cotton increased?

Textile mills had increased their productivity.

What part of the country produced the most cotton?

The South.

What developed because of the demand for cotton?

The slave trade.

What was the only crop that was substantial to the South's economy after the invention of the cotton gin?

cotton

factors

crop brokers who arranged transportation of goods aboard trading ships

Tredegar Iron Works

in its day, the only large southern factory that made iron products

planters

large-scale farmers who owned more than 20 slaves

cotton gin

machine that separates cotton from its seeds

primary

main, most important

cotton belt

nickname for the region that grew most of the country's cotton crop

yeomen

owners of small farms

Southern Society and culture consisted of four main groups

wealthy planters, yeomen, poor whites, free blacks