
How the Cotton Gin Saved Slavery
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The MAIN exports from the United States to Europe, before 1790. [Select ALL that APPLY]
rice
sugarcane
tobacco
indigo
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Multiple Choice
What cash crop was added to exports in the early 1790s?
wheat
corn
cotton
cabbage
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Multiple Choice
Prior to the Eli Whitney’s invention in the early 1790s, slavery had actually been....
GROWING DRAMATICALLY with the United States importing more slaves than ever
IN DECLINE with some slave owners freeing their own slaves.
STEADY, neither in decline or growing
GROWING SLOWLY, with more slaves coming into the South
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Multiple Choice
What did Eli Whitney invent in 1793 that helped farming in the South?
steam engine
assembly line
cotton gin
machine gun
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With Westward Expansion and the pursuit of Manifest Destiny, what spread West with American settlers? [Choose 2]
factories
indigo
slavery
cotton
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Multiple Choice
In the 1790s, America's oldest crops like tobacco were already depleting (using up) farmland as well as....
rising in value
not increasing in value
unpopular
dropping in value
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Multiple Choice
The number (#) of slaves in the United States went from nearly 700,000 in 1790 to _____________________ in 1860.
1 million
2 million
3 million
4 million
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Multiple Choice
In the 1790s, the textile industry in Great Britain was booming creating a huge international demand for...
indigo
tobacco
cotton
sugarcane
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Multiple Choice
According to Henry Louis Gate Jr., who benefitted from the sale of cotton to the Europeans?
Northerners
Southerners
Both Northerners and Southerners
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The desire of cotton farmers to make more money and plant more cotton drove up prices of African American slaves in the upper South, which were eventually sold to the deep South. This is sometimes called...
The Cotton Slavery Highway
The Second Middle Passage
The Southern Slavery Connection
Southern Slavery Line
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