It decreased the price of cotton
pizza
It decreased during the cotton gin :)
The cotton gin removes the seeds from the cotton. This is a more difficult and slower process when done by hand, without the use of a cotton gin.
The cotton gin made labor easy for people or slaves, so the cost decreases.
You would not capitalize it. cotton gin
hargreaves
The cotton gin essentially replaced the handpicking and cleaning of cotton. Before the invention of the gin, the U.S. employed slaves to handpick cotton. Currently, only third world countries still use slaves to handpick cotton.
I hung my cotton shirt up in the wardrobe.
A lot less than before
cotton gin
Because of the invention of the cotton gin the planters were able to grow more cotton and this brought the price down. The biggest buyer of cotton was England for the textile mills.
The cotton gin inventeed by Eli Whitney was invented to mechanize the slow and tedious process of separating the cotton seed from the actual cotton which at the time was done by hand.