Question: In the 1840s, what country could no longer adequately supply the British cotton mills?
Answer: India

Question: Besides buying from the American plantations, where else in the western hemisphere did Britain buy cotton?
Answer: Caribbean

Question: By what time had cotton become prominent in the American economy of the south?
Answer: mid-19th century

Question: What was cotton called in the 19th century?
Answer: King Cotton

Question: What action of the Union damaged the southern cotton exports?
Answer: Union blockade

Question: When did the American cotton industry fail?
Answer: American Civil War

Question: To what county's cotton did European buyers turn due to the American Civil War?
Answer: Egyptian

Question: What characteristic of American cotton attracted buyers after the end of the Civil war?
Answer: cheap

Question: What did the abandonment of Egyptian cotton mean to the Egyptian economy?
Answer: bankruptcy

Question: What was the procedure called which involved workers to work for a share of the profits? 
Answer: sharecropping

Question: What difficulty in harvesting cotton required a large labor force?
Answer: hand-pick

Question: Besides adults what segment of the southern US population was involved in the harvesting of cotton?
Answer: children

Question: What function of southern schools was created for children to pick cotton?
Answer: split vacations

Question: What part of the southern population worked as sharecroppers?
Answer: landless

Question: What is the optimum amount of rainfall for cotton growth?
Answer: 600 to 1,200 mm

Question: In what soil type does cotton prefer to grow ?
Answer: heavy

Question: Why is cotton grown as an annual crop?
Answer: control pests

Question: Where in the US is considered the best place to grow cotton on Earth?
Answer: South Plains

Question: What type of tolerances make cotton an ideal crop for semiarid areas?
Answer: salt and drought

Question: To stop reliance on what was GM cotton developed?
Answer: pesticides

Question: What form of cotton is GM?
Answer: Genetically modified

Question: What bacterium is used to produced GM cotton?
Answer: Bacillus thuringiensis

Question: What farming pest management technique does the use of GM grown plants promote?
Answer: noninsecticide

Question: What part of the life cycle of moths does Bt toxin effect?
Answer: larvae

Question: In what year did a research study find that the use of Bt toxin plants failed to be effective after 7 years?
Answer: 2006

Question: On what did a 2009 study conclude that increased insects were dependent?
Answer: temperature and rainfall

Question: What did a 2012 study suggest  was halved by the use of GM plants?
Answer: pesticides

Question: What did the 2012 study say was doubled by the use of GM cotton?
Answer: ladybirds, lacewings and spiders

Question: How much of the Earth's cotton crops are planted in GM cotton?
Answer: 69%

Question: How much area was planted in India in GM cotton in 2011?
Answer: 10.6 million hectares

Question: What was the percentage of GM cotton planted in India in 2011?
Answer: 88%

Question: Waht country has the largest area of GM cotton on Earth?
Answer: India

Question: At what rank does US GM cotton stand in the world?
Answer: second largest

Question: What percentage of Australia's cotton crop was GM in 2009?
Answer: 95%

Question: What are organic plants understood to be?
Answer: not genetically modified

Question: Without what are organic plants meant to be grown ? 
Answer: synthetic agricultural chemicals

Question: What is meant by synthetic chemicals?
Answer: fertilizers or pesticides

Question: What group in the US determines the allowed practices in organic agriculture?
Answer: National Organic Program

Question: How much organic cotton was produced worldwide in 2007?
Answer: 265,517 bales

Question: What insect is the most destructive pest in cotton growing in the US?
Answer: boll weevil

Question: What program has effectively eliminated the boll weevil in the US?
Answer: Boll Weevil Eradication Program

Question: What is the organization that instigated the Boll Weevil Eradication Program?
Answer: US Department of Agriculture

Question: What form of cotton contains a genetically modified gene?
Answer: Bt cotton

Question: On what does the use of Bt cotton reduce reliance?
Answer: synthetic insecticides.

Question: How is most cotton harvested?
Answer: mechanically

Question: What is the cotton harvesting machine that removes the boll with damaging the plant?
Answer: cotton picker

Question: What machine strips off the entire head of the cotton plant?
Answer: cotton stripper

Question: What weather conditions mandate the planting of stripper types of cotton?
Answer: windy

Question: What type of plant is cotton?
Answer: perennial

Question: What was the first manufactured fiber?
Answer: rayon

Question: When was rayon first made in France?
Answer: 1890s

Question: What type of industry produced a growing chain of synthetic fibers?
Answer: chemicals industry

Question: What company produced nylon and acrylic in the 1930s and 1940s?
Answer: DuPont

Question: What was manufactured completely from petrochemicals?
Answer: Nylon

Question: What prompted a help program produced by cotton producers in the 1960s?
Answer: decline in market share

Question: What law was passed in 1966 to aid cotton producers?
Answer: Cotton Research and Promotion Act

Question: What type of competitors does the 1966 act help combat?
Answer: synthetic competitors

Question: Where has the Cotton Research and Promotion Act made cotton the best selling fiber?
Answer: U.S.

Question: What did producers of cotton have to re-establish after the market declined?
Answer: markets for cotton

Question: For what is cotton used to make?
Answer: textile products

Question: Besides new cotton fibers, what type of fibers can be used to make cotton products?
Answer: recycled or recovered cotton

Question: With what is cotton often blended to make a new style of fabric?
Answer: synthetic fibers

Question: What kinds of fabrics can be made from blended fibers?
Answer: knitted or woven

Question: For what can cotton yarn be used?
Answer: crochet and knitting

Question: For what is cottonseed used after it is separate from the fibers?
Answer: cottonseed oil

Question: What product is processed cottonseed oil?
Answer: vegetable oil.

Question: What is cottonseed meal used for feed?
Answer: ruminant livestock

Question: For what purpose are cottonseed hulls used in feed?
Answer: roughage

Question: As what did early scientists describe gossypol ?
Answer: poisonous pigment

Question: What part of the cotton plant is used for paper manufacture?
Answer: Cotton linters

Question: What do cotton linters look like?
Answer: fine, silky fibers

Question: What are cotton linters called in the UK?
Answer: cotton wool

Question: What is cotton wool called in the US?
Answer: absorbent cotton

Question: What individual first used cotton wool medically?
Answer: Sampson Gamgee

Question: What is a fine, tightly twisted type of cotton fabric?
Answer: Cotton lisle

Question: What is lisle considered to be as a fabric?
Answer: strong and durable

Question: What does extra twisting of lisle thread produce?
Answer: single thread

Question: Where was the lisle thread originally made?
Answer: Lisle, France

Question: How is color perceived to be for lisle in comparison to softer yarns? 
Answer: more brilliant

Question: In 2009 what were the largest producers of cotton?
Answer: China and India

Question: How do the US and Africa rank as exporters of cotton?
Answer: largest exporters

Question: What is the combined international trade in cotton?
Answer: $12 billion

Question: What company is the top cotton broker in Africa?
Answer: Dunavant Enterprises

Question: Where is Dunavant Enterprises based?
Answer: Memphis, Tennessee

Question: How many subsidized cotton growers are in the US?
Answer: 25,000