Chapter 13

  • Eli Whitney pattened the cotton gin!

  • Many slaves were Christians

  • The top three corn- gorwing states were all in the South

  • Nat Turner's rebellion occured!!!!!

  • Turner was executed

  • slave discovered a way to improve the drying process by using heat from burning charcoal

  • The U.S. eas producing more than half of the cotton gorwn in the entire world

  • entrepreneurs began invensting in cotton mills

  • There were 14 cotton mills

  • The U.S was rpoducing more than half of the cotton grown in the entire world

  • In 1848 Anderson became the owner of the Tredegar Iron Wroks

  • There were more than 50 cotton mills

  • More than 250,000 free African Americans lived in the region

  • A billion pounds of cotton

  • Lucy was married by arrangement