The cotton gin, an invention that made cotton growing profitable and entrenched slavery, was developed in
A) 1795.
B) 1793.
C) 1801.
D) 1798.
E) 1812.
Answer: B
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- This state had a large number of slaves but NOT due to cotton production:
- The "black belt" of the south refers to the those parts of western Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi that
- Which was NOT a slave state in 1850?
- Which one of the following was NOT an event occurring AFTER the Missouri Crisis that alarmed southern slave owners?
- Which one of the following lists these events in the correct chronological order?
- This was NOT one of the southern states that had at least 40 percent slaves:
- In these two states, the enslaved African American population outnumbered the white:
- This percent of slaves in the South worked in mining, lumbering, industry and construction:
- Slaves were NOT generally used in growing this staple yeoman crop:
- Which one of the following had slaves but no cotton production?
- To African Americans, being "sold down the river" referred to
- In general cotton production spread this direction, especially in 1840 and 1860:
- Which one of the following is NOT one of the six new slave states added between 1790 and 1821?
- In 1835, southerners tightened these to protect the slave system:
- Hinton Rowan Helper's 1857 work The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It was a/an
- In 1836, Congress passed the "gag rule" to prevent discussion of
- Flush Times" refers to a wave of westward expansion by southerners from
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- As provided in the Constitution, the Congress prohibited U.S. participation in the international slave trade in
- Partly as a result of this 1800 revolt, Virginia tightens laws on granting freedom to slaves in 1806:
- Which one of the following is NOT one of the reasons the South closed ranks on defending slavery in the 1830s?
- The Missouri Crisis of 1819-20 alarmed many southerners because they were
- Natchez County had the highest concentration of this in the nation: