1. Define the “Cotton Revolution,” and when did take place?
2. Where did the Cotton Revolution” take place?
3. How did the Louisiana Purchase influence or impact the Cotton Revolution?
4. What is the significance and relevance of Eli Whitney?
5. What was “Indian Removal” and its relevance to the growth of the cotton industry?
6. What is a “Reservation,” and its relevance to the Cotton Revolution?
7. What was the “New Eldorado?”
8. Define the five states that constituted the Cotton Belt?
9. What crop did cotton replace as the staple or bases for the prosperity of American economy?
11. How did cotton impact American slavery?
12. Why were enslaved Black women the most valuable asset to the plantation economy?
13. Who was Thomas Jefferson and his relationship to cotton?
14. What was his (Jefferson’s) perspective on farming, farmers, and the growth of the United States?
15. How did Thomas Jefferson define freedom for Black people?
16. What his plan or unique perspective on Black freedom
17. By the 1850s, what was the relationship between banks in the north and south to the cotton industry?
18. What were the daily acts of resistance against working on cotton plantations that was virtually shared by all enslaved African Americans?
19. During the Cotton Revolution, approximately how many pounds of cotton did the slave masters force the slave to pick per day?
20. Who was Matthew Brady Gordon, according the assigned reading?
