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American History: Outlines: Cotton Promotes Slavery HandoutAmerican History: Outlines: Cotton Promotes Slavery Handout
Publisher
University of Groningen
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Grade
3rd - 8th
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Social Studies & History
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Lexile Measures
1290L
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American History: Outlines: Cotton Promotes Slavery

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A brief history of how the economic growth of the South became dependent on the work of slaves and how this solidified the unity of the southern states. Links throughout the text will take to you sites containing relevant information.

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Concepts

slavery, eli whitney

Additional Tags

cotton gin, cotton industry, spread of slavery, sugar crops, sugar growing, from revolution to reconstruction, southern states, slavery system

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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