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How might life be like in the South if Eli Whitney had not invented the cotton gin?
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the slaves would have to spend their time separating seeds from cotton.
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Where did the industrial revolution begin in the United States?
The first mass production in the US might have been cotton cloth. The cotton was grown in the South by slaves, processed in cotton gins invented by Eli Whitney, and woven on power looms in the Northeast using technology stolen from Britain.
What might be considered as Eli Whitney's greatest achievement?
I consider his greatest invention the cotton gin.The cotton gin separated the cotton from the seeds.it was normally done by hand and was a long and laborious process. But when the cotton gin was invented,people could turn the handle of the mahine and the cotton would instnly be separated from the cotton seeds.
Why couldn't Eli Whitney get a patent on the cotton gin?
He had one. It took a while to get because the Patent Office thought he might have not made the first saw gin.Eli Whitney had a hard time defending his patent, though; he intended to gin cotton for people instead of selling gins to them. People figured out cotton gins aren't that hard to make and built their own, and Mr. Whitney went broke suing cotton farmers.
How might history have been different had the cotton gin not been invented?
The slaves would only make one pound of cotton in a day.
Cash crops of the southern colonies?
I think it is Cotton ,but i might be wrong so please don't get mad!!! I think it is Cotton ,but i might be wrong so please don't get mad!!! tobacco was the south's first successful cash crop yall sum idiots
What might have happened if the cotton gin had never been invented?
We would be without clothes because well actually there wouldn't be alot of clothes for the entire world because we would be running low on cotton.
Why was the cotton gin created?
It was invented to mechanically separate cotton fibers from their seeds, which until then had been done by hand by slaves. An unforseen effect was that it did not reduce the demand for slaves as might have been expected; on the contrary, it led to an explosive growth of cotton production and because of that, to an increase in the demand for slaves.
How might the rise of cotton produce and slavery affect southern society?
When the cotton gin was invented it gave cotton growers a way to grow more cotton. More cotton meant more slaves, and more slaves meant more production. With production going that meant more could be sold and that also means more money. Money gave the plantation owners riches beyond belief and they lived very well off the slave labor. About the same time in England the spinning cotton Jenny was invented so they needed the cotton the south grew. The conjunction of all of these things gave the southern plantation society unlimited power. When the civil war started they thought England would help them because they needed the imported cotton, but the English where houses were full of bales of cotton.
What cash crop was no longer a major crop sc after the Am Revolution?
I think it is Cotton ,but i might be wrong so please don't get mad!!! I think it is Cotton ,but i might be wrong so please don't get mad!!! tobacco was the south's first successful cash crop yall sum idiots
What do you get from cotton?
Cotton comes from a plant, not an animal. we get wool from sheep though, which at first glance might look like cotton.
Where can you find a picture of cotton?
You might find cotton thread in your shirt. Otherwise, there should be a picture of cotton above.
How might the banning of slavery have affected the south's economy?
It forced the cotton plantation owners (the South's biggest industry and export) to pay their (from now on) employees and allow them to leave if they wanted to. The South's economy was however most affected by the Civil War that had completely stopped the South's cotton export. At the end of the war the Southern States found that India and Egypt had in the meantime largely taken over the cotton market. The banning of slavery and the resulting rising of the cost of labor thus mainly added to the many economic problems the South faced as a result of the Civil War.
