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Opener. Pick up handout out for today and update TOC (table of contents) Have Homework out and ready for Ms. Callahan to collect ON THE HANDOUT list all the technology you use today… (ex. Smart phone…) Brainstorm positive AND negative consequences. Inventions and Consequences. (Then and Now).

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  1. Opener • Pick up handout out for today and update TOC (table of contents) • Have Homework out and ready for Ms. Callahan to collect • ON THE HANDOUT list all the technology you use today… (ex. Smart phone…) • Brainstorm positive AND negative consequences

  2. Inventions and Consequences • (Then and Now)

  3. Video Clip • Watch the following video and add to your list of positive and negative consequences of technology today in the classroom • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&feature=related

  4. Group Discussion • Do you think these positive consequences were indented or unintended ?

  5. Now let’s look at how new inventions changed the South….

  6. Eli Whitney’s Plan • He didn’t like slavery • He wanted to make it easier for slaves to clean cotton. • He wanted to rent this machine so he could make a lot of money. • So….what happened?

  7. So, What happened to Cotton Production in South?

  8. Cotton Production 1820

  9. Cotton Production 1830

  10. Cotton Production 1840

  11. Cotton Production 1850

  12. Cotton Production 1860

  13. Did slavery decrease? • Over the next few slides, you will see several maps listing the population of slaves in the South. • Notice the location and number of slaves.

  14. Slave Population 1790

  15. Slave Population 1800

  16. Slave Population 1810

  17. Slave Population 1820

  18. Slave Population 1830

  19. Slave Population 1840

  20. Slave Population 1850

  21. Describe what happened to the population of slaves in the South after the invention of the Cotton Gin.

  22. Putting it all together… • Discuss and write…. • What effect did the Cotton Gin have on: • A. Slave owners • B. Farms in the South • C. Westward Expansion (and therefore native peoples in the South) • D. Slaves? • WERE THESE INTENDEND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES?

  23. Key Points • Inventions that will change the nation in major ways in the 1800s (19th Century) • Some of the changes surprise those living through the times, even the inventors • These changes led to new opportunity and new conflict.

  24. Final Reflection: Inventions • Should inventor or society be held accountable for unintended consequences of inventions (positive or negative) • Does society have a moral responsibility to think about possible unintended consequences…

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