Helen Keller Biography
Inquiry Project #1
Part 1 1791: 4,000 bales of cotton are produced 1849: 2, 246, 900 bales of cotton are produced 6 cents a lb. to 14 cents in 1857 Expanded into Arkansas.
1793-1860. Slavery in Antebellum America Key Concept 4.2.II Regional economic specialization, especially the demands of cultivating southern cotton,
Missouri Compromise of 1820 Designed to maintain a balance between slave and free states Established the 36degree 30’N line for future admission of slave.
1793-1860. Before 1793, Slavery was on the decline until invention of the cotton gin= short staple cotton becomes profitable 1780’s- northern states were.
Unit 10-Reconstruction Lesson 57-Plans of Reconstruction.
5 . SOUTHERN SLAVERY THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION Prior to 1791 slavery was not profitable
Notes 1
The Road to the Civil War
Not only did Eli Whitney’s cotton gin effect the industry of slavery in the south, but it had an effect on the culture of the south. –A class structure.
