Most of the Cotton Produced in the American South After

question 124

Multiple Choice

Most of the cotton produced in the American South after the invention of the cotton gin was

• A) produced by free labor.
• B) sold to England.
• C) grown on the tidewater plains.
• D) consumed by the southern textile industry.
• E) of the long-staple variety.

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Definitions:

Electronegativity

A measure of the tendency of an atom to attract a bonding pair of electrons towards itself.

Noble Gases

A collection of elements that exhibit comparable properties in normal circumstances; these elements are scentless, transparent, constituted by single atoms, and display minimal chemical activity.

Polar Covalent

A type of chemical bond where two atoms share a pair of electrons unequally, leading to partial charges at each end of the bond.

S-H Bond

A chemical bond formed between a sulfur atom and a hydrogen atom, often found in organic compounds such as thiols.