Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin

The ________________ is the machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, which led to a great increase of cotton production.

• Cotton Genius

• Cotton Gin

• Cotton Maker

• Cotton Plantation

Cotton has been a cash crop for more than _______________.

• 50 years

• 100 years

• 200 years

• 300 years

Machines were invented to process cotton during the _______________________ of the late 1700s and early 1800s.

• Industrial Revolution

• French Revolution

• American Revolution

• Machines Revolution

Eli Whitney developed his cotton gin because the work of separating cotton fibers from its seeds was tedious. Tedious means __________________.

• slow and tiring

• quick and easy

• super fast

• very quickly

Eli Whitney's cotton gin allowed workers to clean as much as ________________ of lint per day.

• 5 pounds

• 100 pounds

• 20 pounds

• 50 pounds

The main effect of the invention of the cotton gin was _____________.

• less cotton was produced

• the increase in cotton production

• the same amount of cotton was produced

• less money was being earned

Since more cotton crops were produced, more workers were needed, so ________________ spread across the Deep South.

• machines

• cotton bales

• slavery

• Whitney's family

By 1860, there were almost ___________ slaves across the South.

• 4 million

• 4 thousand

• 4 hundred

• 40

Other than the cotton gin, what other changes came about during the Industrial Revolution?

• Large mechanical looms

• The steam engine

• Steamboats

• All of these answers are correct.

The cotton gin and other new machines and methods of working were __________________________ that reshaped people's daily lives.

• new technologies

• processing machines

• mass-produced

• old technologies