Well, if you're asking this from your Social Studies weekly (Week 21) The answer is Cotton gin, you can find this answer in the article titled "Unintended Effects."
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The cotton gin produced by Eli Whitney separated cotton from it's seeds much faster than a person could by hand. This made it possible for more time to be spent planting and harvesting cotton than sifting through the cotton balls for it's seeds.
Eli Whitney designed and built the Cotton Gin which made cotton production twice as fast. So factory owners could buy "Gins' and pay low level workers like women and children to work the machines and produce cotton.
The cotton gin!
The cotton gin!
cotton gin
The cotton gin led to a huge increase in the number of slaves in the South. This happened because the cotton gin caused more cotton to be produced.
The cotton gin.
The cotton gin
Cotton gin
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
The fact that picking cotton with slaves was too slow, and the industrial state of America needed to increase production of cotton, so the cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney
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You would not capitalize it. cotton gin
cotton gin