Alec Baliatico Mr. Trzepinska United States History 25 February 2013 The Cotton Gin The Cotton Gin was one of the great inventions of all time. It was the start to the Industrial Revolution and the many other impeccable inventions soon to come. It allows cotton fibers to easily be separated from their thorns. This allowed for much faster production of usable cotton than manual labor. The Cotton Gin was one of the first machines ever built that single handedly replaced the jobs of human beings
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In the state of Georgia‚ Eli Whitney created the cotton gin in 1793. The cotton gin had positive and negative effects in the United States during the Industrial Revolution. The cotton gin changed the way cotton was processed and greatly affected the slave states. In the south‚ the cotton gin had positive and negative effects on the production of cotton. The cotton gin made processing cotton easier‚ faster‚ and more efficient. However‚ it also increased slavery and almost tore out nation apart
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In the 1850s‚ Southern America produced approximately seventy percent of the world’s cotton. However‚ this production would not have been possible if it wasn’t for the invention of the Cotton Gin. Since he was little‚ Eli Whitney‚ developed a passion towards being an inventor. He frequently worked in his father’s workshop and there he would take things apart and would put them back together. At the age of 24‚ he enrolled in college in order to become a lawyer. It was not long after when he found
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Cotton Gin In the late 1700’s many people were trying to figure out a way to remove the seeds from cotton because it was very time consuming and “labor was a slow [and] expensive process” (Shectman 65). In the 1740’s the people of India had created a machine called the churka (a sankrit word for a jerking motion) that separated the cotton seeds from the clean fiber. “The cotton was fed through the dual rollers‚ which grabbed the fiber tightly and pinched free the seeds. The seeds were trapped by
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Due to the economic expansion there was greater wealth‚ which had some benefits for most elements of society except for the Indian tribes. This is thought to be provoked by increasing industrialization‚ such as Eli Whitney’s invention‚ the Cotton Gin. This was a time there was so many change and invention in transportation‚ communication and technology in the United States and all this innovations never changed during the British rule but was actually under developments during that era. Many Americans
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this time she had five children. Her children were named after the Washingtons. After almost a year spent in Georgia‚ the 44-year-old general died at his home on June 19‚ 1786‚ a victim of severe sunstroke. It is said that Kitty helped make the cotton gin with Eli Whitney but some different stories on exactly how keep popping up. On May 31‚ 1796 the widowed Catherine Littlefield Greene married Eli Whitney’s partner‚ Phineas Miller. The marriage would last until his death in 1802. After her marriage Catherine
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is Eli Whitney. Eli Whitney is most known for his creation of the cotton gin‚ which was revolutionary during the civil war because it heavily changed how the South was able to farm and sell cotton‚ which in turn changed their economy and gave the South the advantage of a prosperous cotton industry which was far more advanced than the North’s method of cotton picking. Since cotton picking was mostly a slave job‚ the cotton gin affected slavery greatly. Eli Whitney was born in Westborough‚ Massachusetts
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The Benefits of the Cotton Gin The cotton gin was invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney to clean cotton fibers from the seeds (cotton gin). It was an invention created to reduce work and make cotton production quicker (Cotton Gin). It caused great reduction in the time it took to clean cotton. The cotton gin could drastically reduce the time it took to clean the cotton fibers. “…the cotton gin was a machine that could clean the seeds from 50 pounds of cotton in one day‚ whereas previously a laborer
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And when they have to working on the gins part. They could get sweat and feel hot‚ plus have hard time to working on it in raining and muds. The Cottons Bales‚ in front of me. It shows how the cotton was beautiful as a cloud after the farmers planted them. And then after people and machine picking them up. They were covered with some dirt‚ which it turns from beautiful white into an ugly dirty brown and have some leaves that stuck on cottons. On Texas Cotton Gin Museum site‚ it said the bale weights
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so very simple‚ yet change the lives of millions. Take‚ for example‚ the cotton gin. The creation of the cotton gin‚ by Eli Whitney was significant in history because it gigantically impacted the african american slaves in america’s lives‚ dramatically increased the number and use of slaves‚ and sparked a series of events of the course of 68 years that eventually led up to the start of the civil war. The cotton gin GIGANTICALLY impacted the african american slaves in america’s lives. The number
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