Question 1

What made cotton profitable?

Accepted Answer

cotton gin

Answer

England

Answer

Yeomen

Answer

Tredgar Iron Works

Question 2

Where was the cotton belt?

Accepted Answer

area stretching from Texas to South Carolina

Answer

area stretching from Canada to Mexica

Answer

lane crossing the Atlantic Ocean between the U.S. and Great Britain

Answer

area stretching from Florida to New York

Question 3

What effect did Nat Turner's Rebellion have on African Americans?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Answer

strengthened slave codes

Answer

more than 100 innocent slaves were killed

Answer

less freedom for freed African Americans

Question 4

What increased the need for cotton?

Accepted Answer

increase in textile mills

Answer

beavers were becoming extinct

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silk was too expensive

Answer

slave wages were expensive

Question 5

What is a 'Yeoman'?

Accepted Answer

small farmer with about 100 acres of land

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they controlled the price of cotton at markets

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slave owner and seller

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poor northern white man

Question 6

Why were cotton mills primarily in the North?

Accepted Answer

more rivers and streams to power mills

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slaves were not allowed to work in mills

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Great Britain would only trade with New England states

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southern heat damaged the machinery

Question 7

How much cotton was being produced in the U.S. in 1840?

Accepted Answer

about 1.4 million bales

Answer

about 14 bales

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about 140,000 bales

Answer

about 100,000

Question 8

What is the quote above an example of?

Accepted Answer

spiritual

Answer

slave code

Answer

yeoman

Answer

folktake

Question 9

This quote could be describing what would to happen to a slave if they violated (broke) what?

Accepted Answer

slave codes

Answer

the 1st Amendment

Answer

their marriage vows

Answer

a textile mill

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