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Grade 8 Civil War
Cotton
  1. was the only crop grown in the South.
  2. farming in the South grew from 10,000 bales in 1793 to a production of more than 1,000,000 bales in 1835
  3. plants needed little care once they had taken root.
  4. all of the above.
Grade 8 Early National Era
The cotton gin
  1. was a very expensive machine that only a few farmers could afford.
  2. was a machine that used a toothed cylinder to separate the cotton seeds from the cotton fibers.
  3. made it possible for one person to remove the seeds from 50 pounds of cotton a day.
  4. choices b and c only.
Grade 4 Adjectives
The boy needs                  balls for that activity
  1. small cotton ten
  2. ten small cotton
  3. ten cotton small
  4. small ten cotton
Grade 8 Social Studies
What is a cotton gin?
  1. A machine that picks cotton
  2. A machine that picks the seeds out of the cotton
  3. A cotton whitner
Grade 4 Industrialization
Eli Whitney invented a machine called the
  1. cotton boil.
  2. telegraph.
  3. cotton gin.
  4. telephone.
Grade 12 Industrialization
The man who invented the cotton gin that separated the seed from the cotton is
  1. Henry Clay
  2. Fredrick Douglas
  3. Eli Whitney
  4. Thomas Jefferson
Grade 5 Civil War
Cotton was "king" because
  1. it was an important part of the North's growing industrial economy.
  2. the cotton gin made it easy to produce.
  3. slave labor made it easy to harvest.
  4. all of the above.
Continuing Education Cosmetology
Grade 2 Main Idea
An important farm crop in the United States is cotton. Cotton is used for making clothing. It is still a popular choice for clothes because it is easy to clean and lasts a long time.

What is the main idea?
  1. Cotton is the most important U.S. crop.
  2. Cotton is not used very much today.
  3. Cotton is important for making clothes
  4. Cotton is hard to grow.
Grade 8 Civil War
After the cotton gin arrived in 1800 and cotton production became more profitable,
  1. slaves were considered valuable property and their living conditions improved somewhat.
  2. fewer slaves were freed by their owners.
  3. owners tended to make their slaves work harder to increase production.
  4. all of the above.
Grade 5 Industrialization
Who invented the cotton gin?
  1. Eli Whitney
  2. James Madison
  3. George Rogers Clark
  4. Whitney Cotton
Grade 5 Civil War
Southerners in the United States needed slaves to work in their                    fields.
  1. tobacco and wheat
  2. tobacco and cotton
  3. Peanut and cotton
  4. all of the above
Grade 9 Industrialization
Grade 11 Industrial Revolution
Who invented the cotton gin?
  1. Eli Whitney
  2. James Watt
  3. Isaac Newton
  4. James Hargreaves
Grade 11 Colonial Period
Who invented the cotton gin?
  1. Abraham Lincoln
  2. Eli Whitney
  3. George Washinton
  4. John Adams
Grade 7 Industrialization
One of the first textiles was
  1. gold
  2. steel
  3. cotton
Grade 1 Botany
Which comes from a plant?
  1. cotton
  2. scissors
  3. plastic
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