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Life in the Southern United States: 1820-1860

Life in the Southern United States: 1820-1860. Learning Objectives ( aka . What I want you to learn today!). Summarize how the Southern economy changed due to the introduction of the cotton gin Explain the correlation between increased cotton production & slavery. I. Presentation Vocabulary.

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Life in the Southern United States: 1820-1860

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  1. Life in the Southern United States: 1820-1860

  2. LearningObjectives(aka. What I want you to learn today!) Summarize how the Southern economy changed due to the introduction of the cotton gin Explain the correlation between increased cotton production & slavery

  3. I. Presentation Vocabulary Antebellum Emancipation Economy

  4. The ANTEBELLUM SOUTH • Antebellum = “before war” So when someone says, TheAntebellumSouth, He/she means … Life in the South before the American Civil War

  5. EMANCIPATION • Emancipation = “to set free” So when someone says, The farmer emancipated his enslaved people, He/she means … The farmer set his enslaved people free

  6. ECONOMY • ECONOMY = “a country’s resources, jobs, & production interacting” So when someone says, TheSouthern Economy was built around farming, He/she means … Most of the South’s jobs & people making money, were connected to farming

  7. II. Emancipation in the North

  8. III. Missouri Compromise 1820

  9. IV. IV.ANTEBELLUM SOUTHERN SOCIETY Most common occupation = FARMING Not many factories Weak banking system Relatively few Railroads

  10. So if most people are farmers, what did they grow?

  11. So if most people are farmers, what did they grow?

  12. A “Cotton Boll”

  13. V. By 1850, intheSouthernUnitedStates… “COTTON IS KING”

  14. Southern Agriculture

  15. VI. A cotton gin (short for cotton engine]) is a machine that quickly and easily separates the cotton fibers from the seeds, a job previously done by hand.

  16. VII.

  17. Changes in Cotton Production 1820 1860

  18. VIII. Value of Cotton Exports As % of All US Exports

  19. Cotton is measured in “BALES”

  20. More BALES of Cotton!

  21. IX. How many more BALES of cotton were produced in 1860 compared to 1800?

  22. What else was necessary for cotton production to increase by 4 million bales?

  23. Slaves Picking Cottonon a Mississippi Plantation

  24. “Hauling the Whole Week’s Pickings”William Henry Brown, 1842

  25. Slaves Using the Cotton Gin If cotton production increases by such a dramatic figure, what do you think will happen to the number of enslaved people?

  26. X

  27. Where is cotton production thriving?

  28. ENSLAVED-PERSON POPULATION COTTON PRODUCTION

  29. Darker areas = high slave population

  30. XI. What is the South’s COTTON KINGDOM doing once they harvest all this cotton? Who is buying cotton? Northern Factories European Markets

  31. XII REVIEW: REASONS for COTTON PRODUCTION INCREASE COTTONGIN ENSLAVEDPEOPLE Northern U.S. & EUROPE had a high demand for cotton to be used in textile factories

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