Jean Briggs's Role as an Adopted Daughter in an Inuit

question 48

True/False

Jean Briggs's role as an adopted daughter in an Inuit community resulted in depletion of her supplies and the loss of privacy.

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Definitions:

Ironworks

A place where iron is smelted, forged, or processed into finished products.

Cotton Gin

Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, the machine that separated cotton seed from cotton fiber, speeding cotton processing and making profitable the cultivation of the more hardy, but difficult to clean, short-staple cotton; led directly to the dramatic nineteenth-century expansion of slavery in the South.

Eli Whitney

An American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin, a device that revolutionized the cotton industry.

Boll Weevil

A beetle that feeds on cotton buds and flowers, historically significant for its devastating impact on the United States cotton industry.