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Warm-up: Crops. For each item, answer the following questions: What is it? What does it need to grow? Where does it grow?. 1. 1. 1. 2. 3. 3. 4. 5. 5. 5. Cotton Kingdom in the South. I. Cotton Gin, Cotton Boom. The Industrial Revolution increased the need for cotton .
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Warm-up: Crops For each item, answer the following questions: • What is it? • What does it need to grow? • Where does it grow?
I. Cotton Gin, Cotton Boom • The Industrial Revolution increased the need for cotton. • Eli Whitney’s invention • In 1793 Eli Whitney invented a machine called the cottongin. • A worker using the cottongin could do the work of 50 people cleaning cotton by hand.
C. Cotton Kingdom and Slavery • In 1792 planters grew 6000 bales of cotton, by 1850 they grew over 2million. • Soil wore out if cotton was planted over and over, so cotton planters needed more land.
By the 1850s, cotton plantations extended from SouthCarolina through Alabama and Mississippi through Texas. The area became known as the CottonKingdom.
With the growth of the Cotton Kingdom came the spread of slavery. • The work of slaves brought profits to planters.
II. An Agricultural Economy • Cotton was grown in the Southern most part of the South. • Rice, sugar cane, and tobacco were major crops in other parts of the South.
Small-scale farmers could not grow rice and sugar because it was too expensive. As a result, the plantation system dominated areas of sugar and rice production. • In the early 1800s the large tobacco plantations were replaced by small tobacco farms.
III. Limited Industry • Some southerners, such as WilliamGregg wanted to encourage the growth of industry in the South. • Gregg modeled hiscotton mill on the mills ofLowell Massachusetts.
Tredegar Iron Works turned out railroad equipment, machinery, tools, and canons. • Flour milling was an important southern industry. • The south still lagged in Industry. • Slavery reduced the need for southern industry.
IV. Economically Dependent • The South became dependent on the North and Europe. • Southerners borrowed money from northern banks and also purchased farmtools, furniture and machines from the North.
Many southerners came to resent the situation. • Southerners did believe as long as cotton remained king they could look to the future with confidence.
