The South

By JDArePurple
  • Period: to

    Demand for AMerican cotton increased rapidly

  • 2 million pounds of cotton made

  • Eli Whitney made the cotton gin

  • Prosser plan stopped

  • First steam-powered sawmill

  • Illegal to bring more slaves into the US

  • Vesey plan stopped

  • Period: to

    Top 3 corn growing countries were all in the South

  • The start of Nat Turner's Rebellion

  • Nat Turner executed

  • Dried tobacco with charcoal

  • Anderson became owner of the Tredegar Iron Works

  • "Cotton is KIng" by James Henry Hammond

  • 250,000 free slaves

  • 1 billion pounds of cotton made