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Cotton Gin
The cotton gin, a machine that separates the cotton fibers from the seeds, revolutionized the economy of the early United States. Cheap, plentiful cotton spurred the cloth industry worldwide, encouraged invention and manufacturing in the North, enriched Southern plantation owners and vastly increased the number of slaves needed for planting and harvesting. Many believe that while Eli Whitney’s invention was a great boost for the Industrial Revolution, it may have inadvertently led to the Civil War.
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What are the pros of the cotton gin?
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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.
What has replaced the cotton gin in the 21st century?
the cotton gin is still used 2day. it is just more advanced now
Was it true that cotton gin was a great invention for food production?
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.
What energy source power the cotton gin?
The cotton gin that was invented by Eli Whitney was man powered. You powered the machine by turning a crank located on the side of the machine.
Why did the invention of the cotton gin lead to more animosity between the north and south?
Because it enabled the huge growth of the cotton industry, whereby the South became a great cotton empire, able to compete economically with the North, but dependent on slavery.
Why people did not like the cotton gin?
Actually, the southern planters loved the cotton gin. When it was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 it revolutionized the southern economy and helped promote slavery. Except in the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia southern planters could grow only short staple cottons. The fibers of this type stuck to the seeds and it was expensive to remove them by hand. The gin consisted of a cylinder with rows of wire teeth rotating in a box. The teeth caught the fibers, and a second cylinder, rotating in the opposite direction, pulled cotton from the wires. A person operating a gin could clean 50 times as much cotton in a day as one working by hand. Whitney made little money from his invention because his machine was easy to copy, but the real winner was the south and its economy. Cotton prices and production rose quickly and now could be grow through out the south. The south became one the world's cotton producers ( when the civil war started they thought that people who needed their cotton would come to their aid in the fight, but it didn't happen) and close ties formed with the British textile industry. Slavery grew as a result and slaves were worth more. Fewer slaves were freed after 1800.
1793 South produced 10,000 bales of cotton each was 500 pounds
1801 production reaches 100,000 bales
1835 over a million bales produced
How is cotton and slavery connected?
In the US in the antebellum days cotton plantations were 50% of all US exports. That was in 1860. For generations, the huge cotton plantations were worked by teams of slaves. Eventually the morality of slavery became an intellectual and political topic.In economics as well. With that said, the cotton industry was dependent on slave labor and thus connected.
What might have happened if the cotton gin had never been invented?
We would be without clothes because well actually there wouldn't be alot of clothes for the entire world because we would be running low on cotton.
Why had slavery been on the decline before the cotton gin?
After the American Revolution prices went down on tabacco, rice, and indigo. Less slavery was necessary because the farmers were not making a profit off their crops.
What were the long term effects of the cotton gin?
the price of slaves increased dramatically through mid century. Slaves in their 20's who were regarded as a good or even fair hand were valued at $700 or $800.
How was the cotton gin new back then?
The cotton gin was invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney and it resulted in the explosion of slavery and more cotton production. Because it could remove seeds from the fibers the southern planters were able to grow more cotton and produce more bales. Slavery grew and slaves became more valuable as a result. By 1835 over a million bales of cotton was baled each year by the southern states and sent to England for the textile mills. At the start of the civil war the southern planters thought the English would come to their aid because they needed the cotton, but the English warehouses were full and they didn't need them.
What did the cotton gin replace?
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.
What does gin mean like in cotton gin?
There is no definitive answer in the research. However, it might be that the word gin in the name is a reference to the word Djin, a genie from the Arab world. It is known that the Victorian era used such words in their advertising, so it is a possibility that the word was a working name for the seed extractor. Being American and having a propensity for shortening names and words, the original Djin probably became gin over the time of the development of the cotton gin.
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Who invented cotton gin to a rise in textile factories in the north and slaverys use in the south?
Eli Whitney, of Connecticut. It was this invention that made cotton into a crop that could be grown for profit. Before the gin the tiny seeds had to be removed from the cotton bolls almost one at a time in very labor-intensive hand-carding. The gin easily removes the seeds, making a crop which can now be turned into fiber, then cloth, inexpensively.
Whitney was a Yankee who gave this economic boon to the south. A guy from Georgia returned the favor. His name was McCormick, and he invented the reaper, which harvested the wheat grown in the north. McCormick's invention meant the northern armies were well fed during the Civil War, while the southern troops found they could not eat cotton.
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin late in the 18th century. It greatly reduced the manpower required to harvest the cotton plant.
The first cotton gin was invented in India during the 5th century, there is proof of this in the Ajanta caves.
There is controversy over who invented the key element of the cotton gin, the wire hooks. Katherine Greene supporters cite the claim of a friend of a friend of the plantation foreman. While Whitney supporters, like myself, cite a letter to the editor of Southern Agriculturist magazine, whose author heard from shadowy sources that Whitney had asked Greene for a pin to experiment with at the start of his efforts. There is also the claim that Eli Whitney got the idea from some African slaves working on the plantation, and he just mechanized it. Nevertheless, Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin in 1714, and is given the credit of inventing the cotton gin.
Also, green cotton was the only cotton that could survive in most of the south, and cotton gins are not used to hold the cotton, they only separate the seed from the cotton fibers. There was also another cotton gin in between Eli Whitney's and the single-roller cotton gin in China and India. It was called the double-roller cotton gin, invented during the medieval period.
Ultimately, what is historically verifiable is that Whitney received the patent for the version of the cotton gin which revolutionized cotton production. As to who came up with which idea, and when, it's been the subject of any number of very sketchily supported claims for generations.
The first cotton gin was invented in India during the 5th century, there is proof of this in the Ajanta caves.
There is controversy over who invented the key element of the cotton gin, the wire hooks. Katherine Greene supporters cite the claim of a friend of a friend of the plantation foreman. While Whitney supporters, like myself, cite a letter to the editor of Southern Agriculturist magazine, whose author heard from shadowy sources that Whitney had asked Greene for a pin to experiment with at the start of his efforts. There is also the claim that Eli Whitney got the idea from some African slaves working on the plantation, and he just mechanized it. Nevertheless, Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin in 1714, and is given the credit of inventing the cotton gin.
Also, green cotton was the only cotton that could survive in most of the south, and cotton gins are not used to hold the cotton, they only separate the seed from the cotton fibers. There was also another cotton gin in between Eli Whitney's and the single-roller cotton gin in China and India. It was called the double-roller cotton gin, invented during the medieval period.
Ultimately, what is historically verifiable is that Whitney received the patent for the version of the cotton gin which revolutionized cotton production. As to who came up with which idea, and when, it's been the subject of any number of very sketchily supported claims for generations.
How did new farming machines like the mccormick reper and the cotton change farming in America?
How did new farming machines like the mccormick reper and the cotton change farming in America
