SS.68.AA.2.2

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Explain the effect of the cotton industry on the expansion of slavery due to Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin.

Clarification 1: Instruction includes the use of a map to show westward expansion.

General Information

Subject Area: Social Studies

Grade: 68

Strand: African American History

Standard: Analyze events that involved or affected Africans from the founding of the nation through Reconstruction.

Date Adopted or Revised: 05/24

Status: State Board Approved

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