Question: How did technology give an advantage to the Union in the Civil War? 1. Battery D‚ 2nd U.S. Artillery‚ at Fredericksburg‚ VA 2. Battle in action at Fredericksburg‚ Va 3. A company of the 6th Maine Infantry on parade after the battle of Fredericksbu rg 4. Aquia Creek and the Fredericksburg Railroad‚ with a construction corps at work 5.
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the North hoped it would. Then came a man‚ and an invention‚ which changed the course of history. In 1792‚ Eli Whitney visited the plantation of Catherine Greene‚ the wife of Revolutionary War general‚ Nathaniel Greene‚ near Savannah Georgia. He watched cotton being cleaned; a very long and time consuming process to do by hand. Watching the cotton being cleaned an idea came to Whitney. He decided he would build a machine that would clean cotton faster than it could be done by hand. Thus‚ he
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In 1861‚ when the Civil War broke out‚ the Confederacy and the Union both had numerous advantages and disadvantages and there were multiple women and slaves that contributed to the war. To begin with‚ the Confederacy had its significant advantages that helped it push through the war‚ one of which was its strong leaders. Many believed “Stonewall” Jackson and Robert E. Lee were some of the best officers even before the war. Also‚ they had the advantage of fighting on their own soil. They knew the
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Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin Eli Whitney : Eli Whitney was the inventor of the cotton gin and a pioneer in the mass production of cotton. Whitney was born in Westboro ‚ Massachusetts.‚ on Dec. 8‚ 1765‚ and died on Jan. 8‚ 1825. He graduated from Yale College in 1792. By April 1793‚ Whitney had designed and constructed the cotton gin‚ a machine that automated the separation of cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber. Eli Whitney’s machine could produce up to 23 kg (50 lb) of cleaned
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Maggie Friedman Professor Sullivan TSEM 102 Section 058 22 September 2014 Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in the late 1800’s. Its original purpose was to help people separate cotton fibers from their seeds. This process was necessary in order to use the cotton in its proper way. This invention came at a time when slavery was starting to slowly become less crucial to the nation’s economy and freeing slaves was gaining momentum. The cotton gin soiled all plans of reducing slavery by increasing
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the Union in the Civil War The American Civil War‚ was fought from 1861 to 1865. It was caused by the disagreement over the future of slavery between the industrialized North and the agrarian South. That dispute led to secession. The North’s initial political objective was clear: to restore the Union. Later‚ emancipation‚ or freeing the slaves‚ became another objective. The Confederacy (South) wanted its independence. The Secession led to the Civil War. The victory of Union in the Civil War was
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The Civil War began on April 12‚ 1861. There were two sides. The North and South. Both which had advantages upon each other. One of the many advantages that the North had against the South was that it had more than 70% of the nation’s railroad lines. On the other hand‚ the South had better generals than the North. First of all‚ one of the biggest advantages the North had was men. They had four times the soldier then the South had. The North also had better equipment (like cannons) and supplies
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The Union held numerous advantages over the Confederacy at the start of the American Civil War. However‚ these advantages are hard to discern by merely looking at events‚ for the Union was unable to achieve victory for a full four years and suffered numerous defeats in the early years of the war. While the Civil War is well known for improving the civil rights of African Americans and ending slavery‚ it also holds other lessons in military strategy‚ lessons that still are apparent in the modern day
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Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin revolutionized the cotton industry in the United States. Prior to his invention‚ farming cotton required hundreds of man-hours to separate the cottonseed from the raw cotton fibers. Working by hand‚ a slave was only able to clean about a pound of cotton a day. Simple seed-removing devices had been around for centuries‚ however‚ Eli Whitney’s invention automated and industrialized the seed separation process. A single slave using this machine could generate
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