It separated seeds from cotton and was some times powered by water wheels outside. but now they are mechanical machines so they run by electricity.........love TRS
Well, if you're asking this from your Social Studies weekly (Week 21) The answer is Cotton gin, you can find this answer in the article titled "Unintended Effects."
The cotton gin factories were near lakes because they were crucial to power the cotton gin machines or they would not work.
slaves would work the cotton gins
You would not capitalize it. cotton gin
In the cotton gin
No. It was created to remove cotton seed from the cotton. To remove the seeds without the gin meant hours of work picking them out by hand. With the cotton gin pounds of cotton could be processed and more grown.
I hung my cotton shirt up in the wardrobe.
cotton gin
First, the cotton balls were put into the top of the machine. Next, you turn the handle, which turns the cotton through the wire teeth that combs out the seeds. Then the cotton is pulled out of the wire teeth and out of the cotton gin.
The slaves were glad the cotton gin came out because it would seperate the seeds by you cranking the machine witch made work easier for the slaves(:
It was called the cotton gin because it separated seeds from the cotton, so that is how the invention got is name.
Simple. Once the cotton gin was invented workers were needed to work on the plantations. Therefore, slavery happened.