1. CHAPTER 13:
The South
Section 1:
Growth of the Cotton Industry

2. COTTON BECOMES
PROFITABLE
 Southern economy was bad
 Cotton was not profitable
because of the seeds

3. COTTON BECOMES
PROFITABLE
 Then Eli Whitney invented
the cotton gin
• It removed the
seeds quickly

5. COTTON BECOMES
PROFITABLE
 Southern cotton farmers
became rich

6. THE COTTON BOOM
 Most southern planters began
to grow cotton
• The South became a “cotton
belt”

7. The “Cotton Belt”

8. THE COTTON BOOM
 British and Northern U.S.
textiles mills needed lots of
cotton

9. EFFECTS OF THE
COTTON BOOM
 More slaves were needed to
pick more cotton

11. EFFECTS OF THE
COTTON BOOM
 “Cotton is King!” in the
South
 The South became too reliant
on a single crop and slavery