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ch.14

ch.14. North and South. 1. JOHN DEERE – invents a lightweight plow with a steel cutting edge in 1836. JOHN DEERE STEEL PLOW. Horse could pull a steel plow through a field more quickly. 2. CYRUS McCORMICK – invented a grain reaper in 1834, making harvest faster and easier. 2.

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  1. ch.14 North and South

  2. 1 JOHN DEERE – invents a lightweight plow with a steel cutting edge in 1836

  3. JOHN DEERE STEEL PLOW

  4. Horse could pull a steel plow through a field more quickly

  5. 2 CYRUS McCORMICK – invented a grain reaper in 1834, making harvest faster and easier

  6. 2 His timesaving invention allowed farmers to more than double their crop size and spurred innovations in farm machinery.

  7. Mc CORMICK REAPER

  8. 3 SAMUEL F.B. MORSE – invents the telegraph in 1844, speeds up communication

  9. ORIGINAL TELEGRAPH MACHINE - 1837

  10. Not finished

  11. 1 COTTON GIN – 1793 invention that makes the cotton cleaning process easier

  12. 1 Eli Whitney really did not invent the cotton gin. He patented it. He had memorized the "blue prints" from a similar plan in England, that was on lockdown to keep it from getting stolen, and he brought it to America to see if he could be paid to build it and then to sell it. As you can tell he made a LOT of money off of it.

  13. THE COTTON GIN BY ELI WHITNEY

  14. THE COTTON GIN

  15. 3 Before one person could clean one pound of cotton a day Now one person could clean 50 pounds of cotton a day

  16. 3 Ways that the Cotton Gin changed life in the south: 1) Triggered more cotton production in the west

  17. 3 2) Made cotton the KING crop of the south

  18. SLAVE CROPS IN THE SOUTH - 1860

  19. 3 3) Slavery continues to be the major source of labor and more slaves are needed

  20. 3 4) More Native Americans were moved off their land so it could be used to grow cotton

  21. SLAVE LIFE ON A SOUTHERN COTTON PLANTATION

  22. SLAVE POPULATION IN 1830

  23. 3 Most of the slaves in the South were on huge plantations, not smaller farms

  24. SLAVE LIFE ON A SOUTHERN COTTON PLANTATION

  25. 6 In 1860 about 32% of the population in the South were slaves About 1 in 3 were slaves

  26. 7 In 1860, about 2% of African Americans in the South were free

  27. 8 African Americans used religion, friendships and music to endure the cruel conditions of slavery

  28. 9 SPIRITUALS – religious folk songs “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”

  29. 10 Families were important to slaves But families were often divided and split up

  30. 9 NAT TURNER – an African American who believed that God wanted him free the slaves in any manner possible

  31. NaT Turner REBELLION

  32. 10 Nat Turner organized a slave rebellion in Virginia, 1831 The rebellion failed and killed 57 white men, women and children

  33. Discovering NaT Turner

  34. 11 The Turner Rebellion made southern slave owners even more fearful to revolts and cracked down on the slaves – about 200 slaves killed in revenge

  35. THE END

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