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APUSH Chp. 11 Rise of King Cotton

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Slavery in the United States
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Short-staple Cotton: - Hardier/coarser, but easier to grow, more versatility in location and soil - Previously not sued due to difficult of processing (seeds hard to remove from fiber) ? Solved by cotton gin (1793) - Growing demand for cotton ? 1820s and 1830s Britain ? 1840s and 1850s New England - Production moved further west from Southeast Coast - 1850s, cotton the linchpin of southern economy ? 1860s (civil war) , 2/3 of total export trade of US Booming cotton production in Deep South/lower South/cotton kingdom: - Migration of settlers (majority small slaveholders and slaveless farmers) - "Second Middle Passage" 1840 - 1860 huge forced migration of slaves from upper South to lower South/cottons states

HuG Notes

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TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false. 1) About two-thirds of the people in the world are farmers. 2) Most of the wheat grown in the American grain region is consumed by animals. 3) Subsistence agriculture is designed mainly to generate products for sale off the farm. 4) Most people in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have become commercial farmers. 5) Hunting and gathering is still practiced by isolated groups in Africa, Australia, and South America. 6) Shifting cultivation can support large population concentrations in East and South Asia. 7) Intensive subsistence agriculture involves large amounts of efforts used to produce the maximum feasible yield from a given piece of land.

Human Geo Agriculture Review

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TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false. 1) About two-thirds of the people in the world are farmers. 2) Most of the wheat grown in the American grain region is consumed by animals. 3) Subsistence agriculture is designed mainly to generate products for sale off the farm. 4) Most people in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have become commercial farmers. 5) Hunting and gathering is still practiced by isolated groups in Africa, Australia, and South America. 6) Shifting cultivation can support large population concentrations in East and South Asia. 7) Intensive subsistence agriculture involves large amounts of efforts used to produce the maximum feasible yield from a given piece of land.

nutrition

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S. H. Short, Ph.D.,Ed.D.,R.D. Prof of Nutrition, Syracuse University FIBER Fiber is found ONLY IN PLANTS. 1. Definition ? Fiber is a combination of substances, some of which are carbohydrates, and most of which are not digested by humans. Dietary fibers are classified as water?soluble or water?insoluble. Water?INSOLUBLE fiber (more likely to reduce constipation) is in foods such as wheat bran cereals, wheat products, brown rice, cooked lentils. Water?SOLUBLE fiber (more likely to reduce blood cholesterol) is in foods such as apples, bananas, citrus fruit, carrots, oats. Some foods contain both types of fiber such as kidney beans, navy beans, green beans, green peas.

Chapter 16 Notes

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• Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy o Northern shippers received a large part of profits from cotton trade o Cotton accounted for half of all US exports o 75% of Britain’s cotton from south o King Cotton, Cotton Kingdom, cottonocracy o Planter aristocracy heavily influenced Southern government o Favorite author of elite – Sir Walter Scott – idealized a feudal society o “land butchery” – excessive cultivation o Leakage of population to west and northwest o Economic structure of South monopolistic o Financial instability of plantation system o One-crop economy – price depended on world conditions o Repelled large-scale immigration in south o Social Classes  Wealthy slave owners – 100+ slaves
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