The effects of the cotton gin were obvious to the plantation owners and the textile factories in the Northeast and Europe. A single slave cranking a small 'gin could clean ten pounds of cotton in a day. A slave using just his hand to clean cotton was lucky to clear a pound a day. Once steam powered 'gins were developed, the capacity for producing cotton was only limited by the amount of cotton a farmer could produce. The 'gin was the technological invention of the time for the South. It revived the South's one crop economy, the domination of southern society by large planters, and the revival of slavery. Now, more and more slaves could be used to grow more and more cotton and the price would rise as the demand would increase from the textile mills. The South could also now expand westward knowing the cotton crop
It led to an expansion in the number of slaves in the United States.
It strengthened the institution of slavery in the South.
There was an increased demand for slave labor.
Demanding for more slaves
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Less slaves were needed to pick cotton
It was invented in 1793
In 1793, the invention that affected Georgia's cotton industry was the cotton gin. Eli Whitney's invention made an economic impact as more cotton could be produced and exported. Whitney's machine could separate the cottonseed from the cotton fiber. Prior to this invention, this was done by hand and required many man-hours.
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The cotton gin is a machine that separates cotton seeds from cotton fiber. Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, it was an important invention because it dramatically reduced the amount of time it took to separate cotton seeds from cotton fiber.
Its an increase in agriculture production in the South.
Eli Whitney is credited with inventing the cotton gin in 1793.
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.
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.
The invention of the cotton-gin, making it easier to separate the seeds from the lint in short-staple cotton.
In 1793, Eli Whitney came out with his invention, the cotton gin. This revolutionized the way the South was able to function as an agricultural region.