How the Cotton Gin Saved Slavery

The MAIN exports from the United States to Europe, before 1790. [Select ALL that APPLY]

What cash crop was added to exports in the early 1790s?

Prior to the Eli Whitney’s invention in the early 1790s, slavery had actually been....

What did Eli Whitney invent in 1793 that helped farming in the South?

With Westward Expansion and the pursuit of Manifest Destiny, what spread West with American settlers? [Choose 2]

In the 1790s, America's oldest crops like tobacco were already depleting (using up) farmland as well as....

The number (#) of slaves in the United States went from nearly 700,000 in 1790 to _____________________ in 1860.

In the 1790s, the textile industry in Great Britain was booming creating a huge international demand for...

According to Henry Louis Gate Jr., who benefitted from the sale of cotton to the Europeans?

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...