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
