King Cotton of the South

Question 1

North moved into urban industrialisation

Answer 1

South stuck to commercial agriculture

Question 2

Climate in the South was hot

Answer 2

Perfect for growing crops
First cash crop was tobacco

Question 3

Late 18thC, tobacco growing in other places in the world
Meant prices were down on the crop

Answer 3

Led planters to speculate whether slavery was profitable enough
Cotton introduction changed this

Question 4

Colonists first cultivated cotton

Answer 4

Increased produce during American Revolution

Question 5

Expansion of textile industry in England meant

Answer 5

Increased demand for cotton

Question 6

Short stipple cotton full of seed
Difficult to get out

Answer 6

1798, solved the problem by inventing the cotton gin
Machine that separated cotton fibres from seeds

Question 7

Using the cotton gin could get

Answer 7

50% more cotton seedless than a person with a brush
Cotton production quickly became profitable

Question 8

Cotton was the nation’s most profitable produce

Answer 8

Prior to civil war
By 1840s, US was producing more than 60% of the world’s cotton

Question 9

Cotton crop comprised more than half of US’s

Answer 9

Total value of commercial exports

Question 10

1860 South secession from Union

Answer 10

Made it the 4th riches country in the world

Question 11

Cotton production aided

Answer 11

By the commercialisation of cloth in the North
Used the South’s cotton

Question 12

Couldn’t grow by itself

Answer 12

Needed the plantation system in order to thrive