SOCIETY AND CULTURE BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR TEST
1600
1607
Planters began growing cotton in the South.
1650
timeline of the cotton gin
1793
U.S. slave population reached about 700,000,
after 1793
More plantations appeared in southern states.
1861
Civil Wor
began.
1700
1750
1793
Ell Whitney invented the cotton gin.
1800
after 1793
Demand for cotton increased in New Englond mills.
1850
1860
U.s. siave population reached dbout
4 million,
1900
Use the timeline to answer the question.
Based on the timeline, what can be directly tied to the invention of the cotton gin?
(1 point)
• the Civil War
• economic hardships in the South
• the spread of slavery
• industrialization in New England