to move from one place to another faster. 25. The introduction of automation decreases the value of slaves in the south after the American Revolution. 26. The original cotton gin worked by pulling the cotton through gears that the seeds could not fit through. 27. The difference between long staple cotton and short staple cotton is long staple cotton seeds were larger than short-staple cotton. 28. Rivers were important to
The institution of slavery, which was mostly based in the South, was very complicated and diverse. In the lower South, there were fewer slaves and sometimes white people would work on the plantations with them to get work done. Even on these plantations, the slaves were divided. Some worked in the house and some worked out on the fields. Slaves who worked on large plantations worked in “gangs” and usually worked from sunup to sundown, six days a week. These slaves usually brought their family or
plantation owners in the antebellum South. “American inventor Eli Whitney and his cotton gin improved the cleaning of raw cotton, facilitating the continuing growth of the industry in many locales.” This proves that the cotton industry rose after the gin was invented. It is evident that Eli Whitney played a major part of the growth of the cotton industry. Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin revolutionized the cotton industry. Before 1793 production of cotton was not very profitable due to the fact
North American soil. Whether that settler landed in Massachusetts or Virginia, their beginnings on this continent were all influenced by the society that they had left behind. These included many aspects of England's society, culture, economy, and politics. Those societal, cultural, economic and political beginnings can be traced throughout our history in the mindset that both the North and South represented. This migration to a new world set the stage for the culture of slavery that which was not
DBQ # 6 Slavery and Sectional Attitudes One effect on the issue was that the economy in the south was fueled by cultivation of staple crops that required slaves for labor. In the South slavery wasn’t thought as an evil as in the North because to the Southerners defense the slaves in their opinion were treaty in contrast to workers in England and peasants that were Irish, also the end of slave trade brought higher value to the slaves causing their owners to be less harsh because they were more valuable
the Triangular Trade, was responsible for the forced migration of 12-15 million African Americans from Africa to the Americas beginning in the 15th century (“The Triangular Trade”). For several hundred years, Africans were kidnapped from their homes and sent to the Americas where they were traded for textiles and other goods. This trade seemed to be the beginning of a “cotton revolution” that would be a vital part of not only our economy, but our history as well. Cotton was one of the world’s first
and in the United States the antebellum period was a great time for their economy. During the 50 years before the Civil War , cotton became one of the South’s largest exports. It had not been a very profitable crop until a new invention arose that made the demand and production of cotton shoot through the roof. Once the American Revolution was over and plantations had been rebuilt, many farmers were not making as much as they were before. This was due to the decrease in their indigo market, their
industry.” For Marx, the relationship between cotton and slavery was similarly unambiguous: “Without slavery, you have no cotton.”(1) Cotton came to America from England industrial development. Cotton, a shrubby plant, thrives in warm climates just suitable for South regions and couldn’t be grown in the North, because the climate was too cold. (2) Early in the seventeenth century, agriculture in the American South was dominated by “staples” or money crops – products (tobacco, then rice, indigo, and
DBQ #5: Slavery and Sectional Attitudes, 1830-1860 During the mid 1800’s many Americans began to have mix feelings over the issue of slavery. Many northern Americans believed that slavery was morally wrong and that it was an evil. Southerners on the other hand believed it was a good for the economy as well as for commerce. This great split of attitudes between the north and the south eventually led to threat of the civil war. The North saw the issue of slavery as an evil. They believed
Slavery is a form of forced free labor in which one human being is the property of another. Close to two million slaves were brought to the American South from African and the West Indies during the Atlantic slave trade. The American South accounted for over 20% African Americans. As late as 1900, 9 out of every 10 African Americans lived in the South. Slavery supported the economic structure for the planter aristocracy. In 1850 only 1,773 families owned more than 100 slaves each, and this group