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Did the cotton gin affect cotton production?
The cotton gin made it possible for one worker to remove the seeds from 50 times as much cotton than he could removing the seeds with his hands. Contrary to Eli Whitney's intention, this increased the demand for slave labor.
How did cotton gin affect cotton productions?
The cotton gin made it possible for one worker to remove the seeds from 50 times as much cotton than he could removing the seeds with his hands. Contrary to Eli Whitney's intention, this increased the demand for slave labor.
What importance had Eli's Whitney's cotton gin?
Working by hand, one slave could clean up to 50lbs. of cotton per day. When cotton gins were run by water power or steam, one slave could clean over 1,000lbs. of cotton per day. With the cotton gin, cotton cleaning became much easier and much faster.Please like The Reynolds Advertisement Team on facebook...and/or visit pameladiscount.com and tell your friends.
How much cotton did a slave pick and clean after the cotton gin?
5,000. they were hard workers
How did the cotton gin affect production?
The cotton gin made it possible for one worker to remove the seeds from 50 times as much cotton than he could removing the seeds with his hands. Contrary to Eli Whitney's intention, this increased the demand for slave labor.
When did cotton become profitable?
It had made it much easier to clean cotton and made industries sky rocket
How did the cotton gin change the cotton cleaning process?
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793. This invention made the cotton cleaning process much easier and quicker. It allowed one worker to clean as much as 50 ponds of cotton in one day. The cotton gin changed Southern life in four ways : 1. cotton farming moved westward beyond the Atlantic coastal states. 2. because cotton was such a valuable crop, planters put most of their efforts into growing it 3. more native Americans were driven off southern land as cotton plantations took over the land 4. slavery continued to be important source of labor for growing cotton
What type of cotton could be grown in much of the South?
smooth cotton and rough cotton Long staple & short staple
How did the cotton gin changed the cotton-cleaning process?
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793. This invention made the cotton cleaning process much easier and quicker. It allowed one worker to clean as much as 50 ponds of cotton in one day. The cotton gin changed Southern life in four ways : 1. cotton farming moved westward beyond the Atlantic coastal states. 2. because cotton was such a valuable crop, planters put most of their efforts into growing it 3. more native Americans were driven off southern land as cotton plantations took over the land 4. slavery continued to be important source of labor for growing cotton
What was the advantage of the cotton gin over cotton by hand?
It worked at least 50 times as fast as anyone could do it by hand, so you could either farm much more cotton with the same number of slaves, or you could have the same output as earlier with a much smaller number of slaves.
How much cotton can be produced from one acre of land?
You can get roughly a Bale an acre. If you are luckys maybe a bale and half. You can pick by hand in a full day a bale, only if you are a good worker. That's 500 pounds of cotton.
How much is the average income for a cotton worker?
£3.27 every 12 hours, its illegal now but some people say that there's farms in Yorkshire UK where Chinese dwarf's are smuggled in as slaves to pick cotton, apparently there the ideal size to pick cotton quickly and efficiently.
