Which group made up the majority of white Southerners?
(1 point)
O planters
• capitalists
• middle class
• small farmers
small farmers
Mississippi cotton production, 1800-1859
600
500
400
300
200
100
1800
1833
1839
1849
Source: Cotton and the Growth of the American Economy: 1790-1860
1859
Use the table to answer the question.
Which is the most likely cause of the spike in cotton production in Mississippi in the mid-1800s shown on the chart?
(1 point)
• the growth in demand for cotton in the North and Europe
• the introduction of new irrigation methods to the region
• the invention of the cotton gin
• the increase in number of immigrant-owned farms
the invention of the cotton gin
What were slave codes?
(1 point)
• state laws to control slaves
• conduct standards slaves held themselves to
• state laws to expand slavery
• national laws to limit slavery
state laws to control slaves
cotton production & slavery
1800
0.1
0.9
$ 0.2
1.2
bales of cotton produced (in millions)
1810
1820
10.3
1.5
number of enslaved workers (in millions)
40.70
1830
2.0
1840
2.5
1850
12.
3.0
1860
4.0
Sources: Statistical Abstract of the United States; National Humanities Center
Southern states share of cotton production
growth of the
Southern enslaved population
1826
1859
Georgia
22:7%
South
Carolina
15.4%
6.9%
Alabama
21.2%
Tennessee
21.7%
Louisiana
13.6%
6.5%
5/4%
13.6%
11.57
Mississippi
North
Carolina
Florida
26.4%
6%
Other
0.6%
1372762
1.5%
17376
Source: Stuart Bruchey, ed., Cotton and the Growth of the American Economy:1790-1860
1820 population (by thousands)
1860 population (by thousands)
47.5
Alabama
435.1
0
111.1
0
61.7
149.7
462.2
69
331.7
32.8
436.6
205
331.1
251.8
402.4
80.1
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
275.7
0
Texas
182.6
425.2
490.1
Virginia
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Use the charts to answer the question.
Based on the data on the charts, what can be inferred about the states that show an increase of enslaved workers and have low cotton shares?
(1 point)
• Those states used slave labor to grow different crops
• Those states used additional slave labor in their factories.
• Those states had only just begun to grow cotton and had to increase their workforce.
• Those states were new and data was not available prior to their entry into the Union.