When Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, it made it possible to grow short staple cotton throughout the southern part of the United States. Cotton replaced linen as the material to wear in the summer. Since cotton required a long growing season, it became a major crop for the South. Since it was labor intensive, slaves were the preferred source of labor. Since it required so much water, the South was one of the few places on earth where it could be grown in commercial quantities. As a result, slave owners considered slaves necessary. Thus, it maintained the institution of slavery. (It would be around 1900 before a commercially successful cotton picking machine would be created.)
The demand for cotton went up. Also, slaves weren't needed for separating the seeds in cotton anymore. However, they also were put to work more on planting and farming the cotton plants themselves.
The invention of the cotton gin helped the production time for harvesting cotton in the Southern States. The inventor was Eli Whitney and his invention filtered out cotton plant seeds which before then had to be removed by hand.
It did not help the north because the south could do it themselves so it was sold cheaper to the factories in the north
Since the cotton gin came out, the southern people were dramatically increasing enslaved people because of their key role in producing cotton and suger very fast
It increased the demand for more slaves.
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Less slaves were needed to pick cotton
After the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney the production increases markedly.
Eli Whitney didn't discover cotton. He discovered the cotton gin. In 1793, the processing of cotton-and the economy of the South-was revolutionized with the invention of the machine called the cotton gin. It could separate the seeds from fiber with the turn of a handle. The inventor, Eli Whitney, was a Yale graduate who worked as a tutor to the children of a Georgia planter. Whitney's invention tripled cotton production in ten years. By 1860, cotton represented nearly two thirds of all American exports.
Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin, help speed up productions of the harvesting of cotton and help in eliminating slavery. It also made the separation of cotton seeds from fiber much faster.
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i think its helping with the cotton gin
To make the removal of seeds from cotton easier.
it doesnt
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Eli Whitneys cotton gin was better because it JUST WAS
Less slaves were needed to pick cotton
it worked 50 times faster than one person making cotton
The cotton gin
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney was the inventor of the cotton gin.
what nickname was given to cotton after the invention of the cotton gin