Lesson 3 Southern Cotton Kingdom
KEY
1. The South’s economy was entirely based on farming
2. Most of the Southerners’ lived along the Atlantic coast.
3. The Deep South area included the region of Georgia, SC, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Texas
4. The Deep South’s economy was based on slavery.
5. What did Southern planters grow in colonial times? (Name 3 crops)
Rice, indigo, tobacco
6. Southern cotton was provided to European mills.
7. What did the cotton gin do? Removed seeds from the cotton fibers
8. What was the increase of productivity with the invention of the cotton gin?
Processed 50 times more cotton each day than before
9. Name two consequences of the cotton gin.
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Encouraged the growth of more cotton
Demand for slaves increased
10. Name 3 crops grown in the Upper South. Tobacco, hemp, wheat
11. Name 3 crops grown in the Deep South. Cotton, rice, sugarcane
12. Why was the sale of enslaved Africans a big business? Because workers were need to
produce more cotton and sugar
13. Why was industry slow to grow in the South? Cotton produce great profits
14. Why did planters choose not to invest in industry? Would have to sell land and slaves
to raise money to invest/build factories
15. What was one reason some Southern leaders want to develop industry in the South?
Thought the South was too dependent on the North for its manufactured goods
16. Name the factory built in the South that became one of the nation’s leading iron
producers? Tredegar Iron Works
17. How did farmers and manufacturers transport their goods? Relied on natural
waterways
18. Why did Southern cities grow more slowly than Northern cities? Because the South
had fewer railroads
19. How much of the nation’s rail line lied in the South? 1/3