Southern Cotton Kingdom

After analyzing the charts on the previous slide, summarize the information it showed you about the relationship between cotton production and slavery over time.

Using google, find out the year the cotton gin was invented. Then, look at the chart on the previous slide. How does the introduction of the cotton gin fit into the information on the chart.

Looking at the map on the previous slide, explain why the red arrows are going in the directions they go.

Using the previous slide, explain the relationship between the purple dots and the pink background.

How do the green, purple, and red dots on the previous slide illustrate what you have learned so far about the spread of slavery and the growth of cotton production?

Read the question on the previous slide. Answer the question here.

Put the information from the previous slide in your own words.

Using information from the previous slide, explain why the few manufactured goods that were produced in the south couldn't compete with northern manufactured goods.

Predict how the information from the previous two slides will impact the south during the Civil War.

Based on what you learned in this lesson, explain why slavery was spreading in the manner this animated map illustrates.

Provide an informative caption that explains the settlement patterns illustrated in this animated map of the U.S. from 1790 to 1860 (for example, explain why certain areas saw population growth, keeping in mind the human and geographic factors that influenced it).