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74 Chapter 15 Slavery and Sectionalism
Section 1 Slavery in Georgia Skills Practice
Interpreting a Graph
Founder James Oglethorpe and the colonial trustees banned slavery in their new colony. Over time, however, the lure of
profits from large plantations such as those in South Carolina led the British leaders to change their minds and allow slavery
in Georgia.
Directions: Use the double-line graph to answer questions about Georgia’s population pattern in the hundred years from
1750-1850.
1. About how many enslaved people lived in Georgia in 1790? ______________________________________________
2. By how much did the number of enslaved people grow from 1790 to 1850? _________________________________
3. In what year did the number of enslaved people outnumber the free people in Georgia? ______________________
4. Some historians believe that the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1794 was one cause of the rise of slav-
ery in the South. What evidence from the graph supports or refutes this belief? What other data might a historian use to
support this belief? ___________________________________________________________________________________
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