1. On a full sheet of paper, make a 4 square

2. The Southern Cotton Kingdom
Open textbook to page 389
Read Primary source quote:
How does this statement describe the Southern economy?

4. Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin, 1793 Actually invented by a slave!

5. Describe the development of the Southern economy & society.
The Southern Cotton Kingdom
Today’s target:
Describe the development of the Southern economy & society.

6. Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin, 1793 Actually invented by a slave!

7. Southern population & plantations expands into the deep south & west:
CAUSE
EFFECT/CAUSE
In colonial times, the Southern economy was largely based upon farming cash crops with most settlements along the Atlantic coast. 1. 2.
Southern population & plantations expands into the deep south & west:
After American Revolution demand for cotton increases
- English textile mills
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
- New England mills
Tobacco, rice, indigo 3.
Eli Whitney invents the Cotton Gin in 1793 which quickly & easily cleans cotton: 4.
More slave labor becomes necessary to increase profits.
Encourages farmers to grow more cotton
- Production increases
by 50 times
Slave trade becomes a major business
Increase demand for slaves
- Profits increase

8. Many white southerners did not want industry
EFFECTS 5.
Many white southerners did not want industry
CAUSE
Some argue that factories would help the economy
Industry developed more slowly in the South because of:
Cotton boom, small market for manufactured goods, & poor transportation
Less dependent on the North 6.
Southern cities grew slowly
Southern industry can not compete with the North; must import from Europe

12. Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin, 1793 Actually invented by a slave!

13. Characteristics of the Antebellum South
Primarily agrarian.
Economic power was in the “lower South.”
“Cotton Is King!” * 1860 5 mil. bales a yr (57% of total US exports).
Very slow development of industrialization.
Crude financial system.
Inadequate transportation system.

14. Southern
Economy

15. Graniteville Textile Co.
Founded in 1845, it was the South’s first attempt at industrialization in Richmond, VA

16. Southern Agriculture

17. Slaves Picking Cotton on a Mississippi Plantation

18. Slaves Using the Cotton Gin

19. Changes in Cotton Production
1820
1860

20. Value of Cotton Exports As % of All US Exports

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

22. Slaves Working in a Sugar-Boiling House, 1823

23. Slave Auction Notice, 1823

24. Slave Auction: Charleston, SC-1856

25. Slave Devices
Slave Master Brands
Slave muzzle

26. Anti-Slave Pamphlet

27. Slave Devices
Slave leg irons
Slave tag, SC
Slave shoes

28. Slave-Owning Population (1850)

29. Slave-Owning Families (1850)

30. Slaves posing in front of their cabin on a Southern plantation.

31. Tara – Plantation Reality or Myth?
Hollywood’s Version?

32. A Real Georgia Plantation

33. The Ledger of John White
Matilda Selby, 9, $ sold to Mr. Covington, St. Louis, $425.00
Brooks Selby, 19, $ Left at Home – Crazy
Fred McAfee, 22, $ Sold to Pepidal, Donaldsonville, $
Howard Barnett, 25, $ Ranaway. Sold out of jail, $540.00
Harriett Barnett, 17, $ Sold to Davenport and Jones, Lafourche, $900.00

34. America, The Story of Us 7:36 – 11:44 & 20:06 – 24:30