The invention of the cotton gin allowed for a more efficient method of separating cotton from its seeds. This allowed the South to produce more cotton at a faster rate, thereby increasing its economy and trade.
The invention of Eli Whitney's cotton gin affected the South's greatly. Not only did it help the production of cotton be more efficient, it also took up less manual labor. It did not help pick the cotton from the fields, but it did help weave the cotton into a cloth-like substance. In conclusion, the cotton gin helped the South produce cotton faster and took up less need for slaves. I hope this will be helpful.
The cotton gin actually added to the usefulness of slavery. Before the cotton gin was invented, cotton was a harder cash crop to make ready for the market because of the many little pieces of things stuck in the cotton itself. (Cotton is actually a flower/plant and it is in-cased in a hard shell which sticks to it when it was being harvested by the slaves of the South.) Thus before the cotton gin was invented cotton was losing its cash crop statues. However after the cotton gin was invented cotton was easier to clean and make ready for market, thus earning larger profits for the plantation owners. Slaves were now even more necessary for the growing, harvesting, and cleaning of cotton than before. In fact, you could say that the invention of the cotton gin prolonged the eventual death of slavery in the United States.
Before the invention of the cotton gin, the production of cotton for textile was very labor-intensive and uneconomical. The way a cotton boll grows, the fibers are interspersed with the seeds. To make useful material, the seeds would have to be picked from the bolls by hand which expended a great deal of man-hours. The cotton gin allowed cotton fibers to be separated from the seeds mechanically without a great deal of supervision. This allowed for industrial scale production of cotton at a time when texile mills in Great Britain were also becoming mechanized. The demand for cotton and the ability to process cotton in quantity meant that cotton needed to be produced in volume. Slaves were imported as a means of providing the manpower necessary to plant and harvest the large quantity of cotton.
In Southern GA. The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793. The cotton gin improved cotton picking by allowing more cotton to be picked.
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.
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He was an American inventor who invented cotton gin, this was one of the key inventions in the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of Antebellum Age.
The cotton boom created a rural aristocracy who began to fantasise that they were knights of chivalry, too good to soil their hands in industry and commerce.
When the war came, and they were prevented from exporting their cotton in exchange for war supplies, they had no manufacturing industry to fall back on, and were not able to manufacture the weapons they needed.
When the cotton gin was invented, slaves became incredibly valuable. This invention separated seeds from the white cottony fiber of the cotton, eliminating the need of slaves to do it. So the farmers could now grow more cotton, and to do this they needed more slaves. But at this time slave trade was abolished. So slaves became extremely expensive. From $600 to $1,800!So people started to 'breed' slaves, as a result of this.
The cotton gin was popular at the south. The south used it a lot because that is where most of the crops and cotton grew. They used the cotton gin to grow cotton but then it was hard to clean the cotton gin.
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There have been many versions of the cotton gin throughout history, but the modern version of the cotton gin was created by the American inventor Eli Whitney, a man who was definitely not black.
Invention requires demand and cotton was one of the most demanded commodities in Europe since it was more comfortable to skin unlike wool and supply had to keep up with demand. Investors gave him the money to make the invention
small gins hand powered, larger one by horse or water wheel
Eli Whitney is generally credited. He won a contest to design a machine that would remove seeds from cotton efficiently. This was an enormous economic benefit to the South and made cotton the principal crop (previously, it had been tobacco). This expanded the use of slaves, since picking the cotton was still labor-intensive.
Incidently, "gin" is short for "engine."
The cotton gin helped produce more cotton everyday but also took peoples jobs away.
Cause : Cotton Gin was invented
Effect : Cotton gin took seeds out of the cotton easily and quickly and cheaply.
Cause: Since cotton could be cleaned easily, quickly, and cheaply...
Effect:More cotton could be cleaned each day
Cause: Since more cotton could be cleaned each day...
Effect : More cotton could be grown
Cause : Since more cotton could be grown...
Effect : More slaves were needed to tend the cotton crop and to pick it.
Cause : Since more slaves were needed to pick and tend the cotton crops
Effect : Slavery drastically increased in the South and more slaves were bought.
Cause: Since it cost money to buy slaves...
Effect: Southern plantation owners tied up their capital in slavery
Cause: Since Southern plantation owners were spending all of their money on slaves...
EFfect: They didn't have any money left over to build textile mills for their cotton or roads to transport their cotton
Cause : Since the South didn't invest their money in textile mills to mill their cotton...
Effect : The North built the mills and bought the cotton - new spinning and weaving machines as well as cheap child and female labor made these mills highly profitable.
Cause: Since the North was investing their money in mills such as cotton mills...
Effect:They were producing a large and varied amount of goods.
Cause: Since the North was producing a large and varied amount of goods
Effect : They also built roads to transport their many and varied goods that were produced in these mills.
Effect # 2: They also resented cheaper imports of the products and goods that they were making from England since people wanted to buy the cheaper goods rather than their more expensive domestic products.
Cause: Since the North had the factories and mills and transportation system...
Effect : They had a huge advantage over the South when the Civil War began.
Cause: Since the North didn't want people buying the cheaper imports from England...
Effect : They placed tariffs (taxes on exports) on the cheaper products that were being imported.
Cause: After placing tariffs on the imported products...
Effect: The price of these products rose accordingly
Cause: When the prices of these imported goods rose...
Effect: The South resented the price hike.
Hope this helps! There is more but I am tired of writing. Besides I need a web format now. Cause : Cotton Gin was invented
Effect : Cotton gin took seeds out of the cotton easily and quickly and cheaply.
Cause: Since cotton could be cleaned easily, quickly, and cheaply...
Effect:More cotton could be cleaned each day
Cause: Since more cotton could be cleaned each day...
Effect : More cotton could be grown
Cause : Since more cotton could be grown...
Effect : More slaves were needed to tend the cotton crop and to pick it.
Cause : Since more slaves were needed to pick and tend the cotton crops
Effect : Slavery drastically increased in the South and more slaves were bought.
Cause: Since it cost money to buy slaves...
Effect: Southern plantation owners tied up their capital in slavery
Cause: Since Southern plantation owners were spending all of their money on slaves...
EFfect: They didn't have any money left over to build textile mills for their cotton or roads to transport their cotton
Cause : Since the South didn't invest their money in textile mills to mill their cotton...
Effect : The North built the mills and bought the cotton - new spinning and weaving machines as well as cheap child and female labor made these mills highly profitable.
Cause: Since the North was investing their money in mills such as cotton mills...
Effect:They were producing a large and varied amount of goods.
Cause: Since the North was producing a large and varied amount of goods
Effect : They also built roads to transport their many and varied goods that were produced in these mills.
Effect # 2: They also resented cheaper imports of the products and goods that they were making from England since people wanted to buy the cheaper goods rather than their more expensive domestic products.
Cause: Since the North had the factories and mills and transportation system...
Effect : They had a huge advantage over the South when the Civil War began.
Cause: Since the North didn't want people buying the cheaper imports from England...
Effect : They placed tariffs (taxes on exports) on the cheaper products that were being imported.
Cause: After placing tariffs on the imported products...
Effect: The price of these products rose accordingly
Cause: When the prices of these imported goods rose...
Effect: The South resented the price hike.
There is more to this but I am tired of writing them. Hope this helps!
it takes out the seeds from the cotton The way they used to do it before the cotton gin was pick them out with their hands and cotton is a prickly plant so they would bleed, the cotton gin saved time and blood
It made it cheap and easy to clean the seeds out of raw cotton. This made cotton farming financially attractive. This made the use of slave labor more attractive, since cotton farming required a lot of labor.
In a rather perverse way, it can be said the rebirth of slavery in the US Southern States was due in part by the lack of a money crop to profitable export. Many historians point out that slavery was becoming a declining institution because of increasing expense of harvesting cotton. Apart from tobacco, which was a soil wasting crop, it depleted the soil rapidly. Other crops such as corn, wheat and rice made for no great wealth. The Cotton Gin made harvesting cotton allot easier, thus the more slaves the South had, the more cotton could be planted & the more profitable were the cotton plantations. Within two years of the widespread use of the cotton gin, the demand for slave labor drastically increased. By the end of those two years, the price of slaves doubled.
more cotton plantations were needed
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more cotton plantations were needed
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The building of cotton mills decreased the south's dependence on the north.