Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin - Benchmark

__________ is a major crop in the South.

What machine did Eli Whitney patent?

• telephone

• crop seeder

• cotton gin

• tractor

Choose all the items below that cotton was used for.

• textiles

• clothes

• machines

• fabric

• wood

What kind of change did the invention of the cotton gin make?

What was it that made the cotton gin so important? The ___________ in which it harvested cotton.

How much faster was the cotton gin than harvesting by hand?

What was the name of the area where cotton was grown the most?

• the north

• The Cotton Land

• the Cotton Belt

• The Cotton States

What was the time period when machines started making life easier for slaves and all humans?

• The Whitney Revolution

• The Machine Revolution

• The Technology Revolution

• The Industrial Revolution