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Here are the teacher pack items for Southern Plantations:
Overview In this experience, students view an image of an early cotton gin and think about its purpose. Then, they learn about the growth of cotton plantations in the South and how this growth increased the use of enslaved labor. Next, they examine how the Lowell Mills connected Northern manufacturing to Southern cotton plantations and explore the cause-and-effect relationship between the cotton gin and slavery. Finally, they learn about the lives of enslaved people and examine an actual 1800 newspaper ad offering a reward for the capture and return of a person who escaped slavery. If you have access to leveled readers about the lives of enslaved people or workers in textile mills, assign them to students in parallel with this experience. . Estimated duration: 40-50 minutes Vocabulary words: Objectives
Jamestown, Virginia, was the first permanent English settlement in what became the United States. Indigenous people had grown tobacco in North America for thousands of years. The settlers at Jamestown began growing tobacco to sell. Tobacco made a lot of money. Large tobacco farms spread across the southern colonies. At first, many landowners used indentured servants as workers. Over time, they forced more enslaved Africans to work on their farms. As these large farms grew, slavery grew too. In this experience, you will learn about the growth of plantations and slavery. You will also learn how they affected the United States.
Objectives
Look at the invention shown in the photograph. What do you think it is?
What might this invention have been used for?
Discuss some of the students’ responses. Explain that the invention pictured is the cotton gin. The name is short for cotton engine. Eli Whitney developed his cotton gin in 1793. It quickly removed seeds from cotton, a job that took much longer to do by hand. Whitney’s cotton gin could clean cotton about fifty times faster than a person could by hand. Explain that students will learn how the cotton gin helped cotton farming grow across the South. As cotton farming grew, plantation owners wanted more workers to grow and pick the cotton. This led to a large increase in the use of enslaved labor.
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