Student must answer at least four questions below:
- In what ways did cotton impact southern slavery?
- What is the significance of the “cotton-gin?”
- What is the significance of share-cropping in the documentary?
- How did cotton influence African American art?
- How did cotton impact southern women in the 1800s?
- Who is Eli Whitney?
- How did the cotton economy impact the stability of the African American family after slavery?
- What is the significance of Augusta, Georgia and its relationship to cotton in the 1800s?
- What is the significance of England and its relationship to cotton in the 1800s?
