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Cotton Gin

The cotton gin, a machine that separates the cotton fibers from the seeds, revolutionized the economy of the early United States. Cheap, plentiful cotton spurred the cloth industry worldwide, encouraged invention and manufacturing in the North, enriched Southern plantation owners and vastly increased the number of slaves needed for planting and harvesting. Many believe that while Eli Whitney’s invention was a great boost for the Industrial Revolution, it may have inadvertently led to the Civil War.

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What is ingredient of Gordon's gin?

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The main ingredients in Gordon's gin are juniper berries, coriander seeds, citrus peel, and angelica root. These botanicals give Gordon's gin its distinctive flavor profile.

What page number did it say tom got his arm stuck in a cotton gin?

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The description of Tom getting his arm stuck in a cotton gin is on page 15 in the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

When Bradstreet writes Then straight I 'gin my heart to chide she signals that her next words will be addressed to whom?

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When Anne Bradstreet writes "Then straight I 'gin my heart to chide," she signals that her next words will be addressed to herself. This phrase suggests that she is about to criticize or scold her own heart for its thoughts or emotions.

The Southern US states became the world's greatest cotton-producing region partly as a result of?

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The cotton gin was an invention of Eli Whitney. This machine saved time by removing seeds from cotton plants, thus saving labor. As the textile mills of the world, including those of the New England states needed cotton, the cotton gin allowed for the faster processing of the cotton plant to feed the overwhelming demand for cotton.

How did the cotton gin lead to the growth of the institution of slavery?

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- The cotton gin affected slavery because after the cotton gin was invented more slave owners wanted slaves in order to be able to organize the cotton. Since this machine worked really fast in the process of taking the seeds off the cotton, the slaves would have to also work faster to get the cotton & organize it without stopping (even if the machine was to fast).

What was the cotton gin for?

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I am not sure he designed it for a specific plantation, but he heavily depended on Catharine Greene, who owned a Georgia plantation, for financial support, so he might have designed it for her plantation.

How was clothing made before the cotton gin?

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By sewing by hand with a needle and thresd.

Why did Eli Whitney Cotton gin lead to the spread of slavery into more of the south?

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The cotton gin made cotton production more profitable, as long as the slave labor remained. More planters pursued larger profits under the plantation system.

It made the cotton trade so profitable that Southern leaders were strongly motivated to preserve slavery and extend it, if possible.

Growing cotton became more profitable, growers expanded crop acreage, and more slaves were needed to grow the cotton.

How does the cotton gin work and what does it look like?

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a worker cranked the machine and the "teeth" seperated green seeds from the cotton fibers

Did the cotton gin increase or decrease the need for slaves?

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Yes, the invention did increase the demand for slave labor. The cotton gin's function was to pull the seeds from cotton, and did so at a rate that transformed it into the leading cash crop of that era. Though the machine was efficient, it still could not plant or pick the cotton. Since there was no machine at that time to plant or pick it, farmers bought slaves for the task.

Where is the biggest cotton gin?

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Burton Cotton Gin in Texas, I believe.

What was an unintended negative effect of the cotton gin?

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I am doing an essay on this right now so I would be glad to answer your question.

The positive effects of the "cotton gin" was that it made producing cotton so much easier. Before Eli Whitney invented the "cotton gin", picking the seeds out of the cotton plants were so laborious and time consuming. but now, it was easy and fast, and farmers made much more money.

The negative effects of the "cotton gin" was that it made the need for slaves greatly increase, and the number of slave states shot up. Plantations grew, and work became regimented and relentless (unending).

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Why did the price of cotton gin go down in the 1900s?

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They either developed new types of technology or the country was industrializing and they were finding new ways to do things.

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Some sub branches of Physical Science are:

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How did the cotton gin have an impact on transportation?

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Cotton bolls are transported by first being compacted into modules with a machine called a module builder. A module is kind of like a bale of cotton, except it weighs 10,000 to 20,000 pounds. Once the module is built, it is loaded onto a flatbed truck and hauled to the cotton gin.

(An update: Since I wrote that, John Deere and IH Case have introduced new cotton pickers that have onboard module builders. The minimodules so produced are round and weigh 5000 pounds. A fully equipped John Deere 7760 cotton picker is nearly $900,000 and you only need it two weeks a year, so many of the guys who have these are contract cotton harvest operators. They like the machine because it dramatically cuts down on the number of workers needed.)

After the bolls are processed into cotton lint, it is compressed into "standard density bales." These can be transported in regular dry vans or railroad boxcars.

When the cotton is spun into yarn, woven into cloth and made into finished goods, it can be transported like any other dry freight is transported.

What effect did the cotton gin have on slavery?

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Prior to the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney separating the cotton seeds from the fibers took a great deal of work making cotton not very profitable. Some even believed that slavery would collapse as an effective system simply because of unprofitably. The invention of the cotton gin made it much easier to separate the seeds from the fibers so much more cotton could be produced. this caused slavery to expand rapidly in the American south.

What was happening to slavery before the cotton gin?

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not much. but after Eli Whitney made the cotton gin, slavery wanted to be expanded, pretty much causing the civil war

Why did cotton gin lead to slaves more valuable than without the cotton gin?

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More slaves were needed to PICK the cotton in the fields because the cotton gin more quickly took the seeds out of the cotton. The planters (plantation owners who owned more than 20 slaves) wanted more profit, so they wanted to constantly have the cotton gin working. To have this happen, there would need to be A LOT more cotton.

How did the invention of the cotton gin benefit southern planters How did it benefit northern textile manufacturers?

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The cotton gin removed seeds from the cotton.

The invention of the cotton gin caused massive growth of the production of cotton in the United States, concentrated mostly in the South. Cotton production expanded from 750,000 bales in 1830 to 2.85 million bales in 1850. As a result, the South became even more dependent on plantations and slavery, making plantation agriculture the largest sector of the Southern economy. In addition to the increase in cotton production, the number of slaves rose as well, from around 700,000, before Eli Whitney's patent, to around 3.2 million in 185. By 1860 the United States' South was providing eighty percent of Great Britain's cotton and also providing two-thirds of the world's supply of cotton.

Cotton had formerly required considerable labor to clean and separate the fibers from the seeds; the cotton gin revolutionized the process. With Eli Whitney's introduction of "teeth" in his cotton gin to comb out the cotton and separate the seeds, cotton became a tremendously profitable business, creating many fortunes in the Antebellum South. New Orleans and Galveston were shipping points that derived substantial economic benefit from cotton raised throughout the South.

What does gin mean in cotton gin?

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Eli Whitney invented a machine called the cotton gin that separated the seeds from the raw cotton at a fast rate.

How did the cotton gin affect the production of cotton in Georgia?

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It turned Savannah into world's largest exporters of cotton. Cotton led to a market economy. There was a lot of fashion now because clothes were made of lighter and easier material. Men dressed in knee-high britches, white stockings, long tail coats, vests and shorts. Women wore long gowns with 3- quarter sleeves and low cut bodices.

Who invented the cotton gin which caused an increased in slavery?

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Eli Whitney. Slavery increased because cotton production greatly increased after the cotton gin was invented.

Why was Cotton so important in the Civil war?

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Cotton was a major antebellum US crop, grown almost exclusively in what were considered to be "slave" states. Textile mills in the US's northwest and markets abroad such as England provided wealth that benefited the entire US. When the US Civil War broke out, the Southern "cotton" states lost a great deal of sales from the Northeast and from Europe due to the Union blockade of Southern ports.

How did the invention of the cotton gin affect the Southern economy?

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The invention of the cotton gin allowed for a more efficient method of separating cotton from its seeds. This allowed the South to produce more cotton at a faster rate, thereby increasing its economy and trade.