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What is the difference between long staple cotton and short staple cotton?
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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.
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smooth cotton and rough cotton Long staple & short staple
What is uses of cotton?
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Difference between long staple and short staple cotton?
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The growth of short staple cotton was made profitable by the?
cotton gin
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It is suitable for mass-produced items like blankets.
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What year was short staple cotton introduced in the south?
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The main impact of the invention of the cotton gin 1793 was on?
The ability to produce short-staple cotton Virginia, but removing seeds from the cotton bolls was so labor intensive that growing short-staple cotton was only marginally profitable. That situation changed after Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793. With the seed extraction problem solved, short-staple cotton became the South's major industry. Cotton became king.
What invention help the Southern states use short-staple cotton abundantly?
cotton gin
What invention deepened the the connection between north and south?
The cotton-gin. A simple device for separating the seed from the lint. It enormously speeded the production of short-staple cotton.
Type of cotton that could be grown in much of the south?
The cotton gin made it profitable to grow short staple cotton across the South. Previously, it had only been profitable to grow long staple cotton on the seal islands.
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