Question

In the 1830s, Connecticut experienced a so-called "mania" for growing this crop. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this fruit that names a "row" of slave quarters at Monticello. Bandits' Roost was a tenement alley off a New York street named for this fruit, photographed by Jacob Riis.
ANSWER: mulberries [or Mulberry Mania; or Mulberry Row; or Mulberry Street; or Morus alba]
[10m] In a failed attempt to start a silk industry, hundreds of mulberry trees were planted in this city's Trustees' Garden. James Oglethorpe created two dozen squares in this city, founded as the capital of a debtors' colony.
ANSWER: Savannah
[10e] As owner of Savannah's Mulberry Grove Plantation, Nathanael Greene's widow Catharine helped Eli Whitney design a gin for processing this other crop.
ANSWER: cotton [or cotton gin]
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TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 PACE NSC06/07/2025Y712.86100%29%0%