| A | B |
|---|
| Eli Whitney | Young Connecticut school teacher |
| cotton gin | invention of Whitney's to extract seeds from cotton |
| does the work of a 1000 people | cotton gin |
| Cotton Kingdom | Area of land from SC through Alabama and Mississippi into Texas |
| 6000---2,000,000 | increase in bales of cotton per year from 1820 to 1850 |
| slavery | tragic side effect of cotton production |
| 1808 | U.S. had made slave trade with Africa illegal |
| tobacco,rice,sugar cane | other crops that made money for southern farmers |
| William Gregg | Modeled his cotton mill after the Lowell mills in Mass. |
| Southern manufacturing | lagged behind Northern manufacturers |
| North and Europe | South depended on these areas for cloth, furniture, tools |
| 60% | By mid 1800's this much of the world's cotton was produced in the South |
| Cattle | Texas' main industry in 1850's |
| Cotton | Alabama's main industry in 1850's |
| rice and sugar cane | South Carolina's main industry in 1850's |
