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How did the price of cotton change over time?
it decreased (APEX)
What was the advantage of the cotton gin over cleaning cotton by hand?
Advantage of the cotton gin was to speed up and have a more efficient production of cotton.
What are some natural resources to make a sweater?
wool from sheep ... cotton from the cotton plant ....
Where is cotton commonly found?
Cotton is commonly found in the cotton tree.
What is the difference between long staple cotton and short staple cotton?
Short-staple cotton differed from the long-staple variety in two ways: 1. It's bolls contained seeds that were much more difficult to extract by hand 2. It could be grown almost anywhere south of Virginia and Kentucky--the main requirement was a guarantee of two hundred frost-free days. Long-staple cotton requires a more semitropical area such as on the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia.
How do slaves pick cotton?
Slaves pick cotton by hand.
What was it like Before the cotton gin cotton gin?
Life before the cotton gin for people was a bit harder they had to hand pick the cotton themselves
What is the name of the machine that was used to pick cotton during the civil war?
During the Civil War, there WAS no machinery to pick cotton- it was picked by hand. The machine that was used to separate the cotton fiber from the seeds was the Cotton Gin (as in engine).
How much cotton did slaves have to pick by the end of the day?
They had to pick until night time. from dawn to duska normal field hand slave was expected to pick 150-200 pounds of cotton a day
How is cotton picked?
Cotton is currently picked by machine. They used to have slaves pick the cotton in the south by hand. You seem to have forgotton the people (both white & black) that picked cotton after the slaves & before the cotton picking machines.
How does the cotton gin pick the cotton?
The cotton gin does not pick the cotton. It separates the cotton fiber from the seeds and other debris
Did whites pick cotton?
Yes they did, whites did pick cotton.
How was cotton made by slaves?
Southern cotton farmers needed extensive hand labor to plant, pick, gin, and bale the cotton they grew. Without slaves, it would have been difficult to find affordable laborers.
How do you collect cotton of the cotton tree?
You pick it.
How did the cotton gin lead to a demand for more enslaved labores?
The Cotton Gin merely raised the demand for cotton as it was a machine that quickly separated the cotton from the seed. But what the Cotton Gin couldn't do was pick the cotton. Paying people to pick the cotton was now even less cost efficient...
What are the pros of the cotton gin?
The Cotton G in was an invention created by Eli Whitney. He created the Cotton Gin in 1793. This invention was a quicker alternative to picking seed out of cotton by hand. The machine had spiked teeth on a boxed revolving cylinder to pick the seeds.
How did the price of cotton change over time?
it decreased (APEX)
