This 10-slide illustrative PowerPoint teaches students about the growth of the "Cotton Kingdom" in the South in America. It explains Eli Whitney's cotton gin and how cotton grew to become a cash crop, which increased slavery in the South.

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I have been teaching grades 7 and 8 Language Arts and Social Studies at De Anza Academy of Technology & the Arts in Ventura, California since 2001. I have also briefly taught high school ESL (grades 9-12), and I spent one month teaching English in Moscow, Russia.
