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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 safeguards protect industrial cotton gin operators?
employers are required to limit the level of breathable cotton dust in the air and take other safety measures, such as supplying employees with respirators, periodic medical examinations, and training programs.
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Did south have many factories?
The south did have factiories. When the "Cotton Gen" was created it increased the population of slavery making many factories.
What was used before a cotton gin?
Before the cotton gin was invented back in 1793, farmers or plantation owners either had workers, or slaves pick the seeds from the cotton by hand.
How might history have been different had the cotton gin not been invented?
The slaves would only make one pound of cotton in a day.
Which Mali ruler improved agriculture and introduced cotton?
Sundiata Keita is considered to be the founder of the Mali Empire. He introduced cotton to the land and made great improvements in agriculture.
How did the cotton gin changed the cotton-cleaning process?
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793. This invention made the cotton cleaning process much easier and quicker. It allowed one worker to clean as much as 50 ponds of cotton in one day. The cotton gin changed Southern life in four ways :
1. cotton farming moved westward beyond the Atlantic coastal states.
2. because cotton was such a valuable crop, planters put most of their efforts into growing it
3. more native Americans were driven off southern land as cotton plantations took over the land
4. slavery continued to be important source of labor for growing cotton
How do you tell if sloe gin goes bad?
Sloe Gin, like most alcohol products, don't really go "bad" as the alcohol kills the bacteria that could cause "badness". However, the taste will change over time as the solution oxidises, this is what happens to wine and why you tend not to drink wine that has been open for a long time; it's not bad it just doesn't taste as good. Sloe Gin tends to have more alcohol and sugar than wine so the "sloe gin" taste will last longer. We tend to find that after about 6 months after opening the taste gets a little "woody" and a bit like sherry.
I sell sloe gin for a living and I often hear people tell me that they have bottles that have been on the go for anything up to 10 years and still taste ok. At this point they'll also generally say that "it's really strong in alcohol", which unfortunately is not true, the longer you leave the sloe gin, especially if the sloes are still in, the lower the alcohol gets; you are "compounding" not "fermenting"!
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Why was the cotton gin important?
It makes it easier to pull the seeds out of cotton. Before the cotton gin, it took about a day to produce one pound of cotton without the seeds. With the cotton gin, people could produce many pounds of cotton and all they needed to do was pick the cotton and put it in the cotton gin to clean it.
How do people grow cotton today?
After cotton has been harvested, producers who use conventional tillage practices cut down and chop the cotton stalks. The next step is to turn the remaining residue underneath the soil surface. Producers who practice a style of farming called conservation tillage often choose to leave their stalks standing and leave the plant residue on the surface of the soil.
In the spring, farmers prepare for planting in several ways. Producers who plant using no-till or conservation tillage methods, use special equipment designed to plant the seed through the litter that covers the soil surface. Producers who employ conventional tillage practices, plow or “list†the land into rows forming firm seed-beds for planting. Producers in south Texas plant cotton as early as February. In Missouri and other northern parts of the Cotton Belt, they plant as late as June.
Seeding is done with mechanical planters which cover as many as 10 to 24 rows at a time. The planter opens a small trench or furrow in each row, drops in the right amount of seed, covers them and packs the earth on top of them. The seed is planted at uniform intervals in either small clumps (“hill-droppedâ€) or singularly (“drilledâ€). Machines called cultivators are used to uproot weeds and grass, which compete with the 
cotton plant for soil nutrients, sunlight and water.
About two months after planting, flower buds called squares appear on the cotton plants. In another three weeks, the blossoms open. Their petals change from creamy 
white to yellow, then pink and finally, dark red. After three days, they wither and fall, leaving green pods which are called cotton bolls.
Inside the boll, which is shaped like a tiny football, moist fibers grow and push out from the newly formed seeds. As the boll ripens, it turns brown. The fibers continue to expand under the warm 
sun. Finally, they split the boll apart and the fluffy cotton bursts forth. It looks like white cotton candy.
Since hand labor is no longer used in the U.S. to harvest cotton, the crop is harvested by machines, either a picker or a stripper. Cotton picking machines have spindles that pick (twist) the seed cotton from the burrs that are attached to plants’ stems. Doffers then remove the seed cotton from the spindles and knock the seed cotton into the conveying system.
Conventional cotton stripping machines use rollers equipped with 
alternating bats and brushes to knock the open bolls from the plants into a conveyor.
A second kind of stripper harvester uses a broadcast attachment that looks similar to a grain header on a combine. All harvesting systems use air to convey and elevate the seed cotton into a storage bin referred to as a basket. Once the basket is full, the stored seed cotton is dumped into a boll buggy, trailer or module builder.
In addition to the cotton gin Eli Whitney's major contribution to American Technology was his?
introduction of interchangeable parts
It presupposes that an immigrant would choose to locate himself in a slave state where he would have to compete with 'free' slave labor.
The cotton gin advanced the growth of textile industry becausei t?
provided a faster method of separating the seeds from cotton fiber
What were the effects of cotton gin?
the answer is 1 cotten gin took seeds out of the easily and quily ang cheaply
Why did some Virginia plantation owners raise to sell in the lower south?
because they doesn't have choice because the their where to little in money so the cotton gin can help
A cottongin is a machine that was created by Elis Whitney to pick the seeds out of cotton. This made Production a lot faster which was great for the African Americans working conditions back then.
How did the cotton gin affect the demand for slaves?
It made it easier for slaves to remove seeds from cotton.
It helped slaves work faster.It Has Helped slaves Work faster by trying to get seeds out of cotton for clothing.
What replaced the cotton gin in the 21st century?
the cotton gin is still used 2day. it is just more advanced now
What was one important effect of the invention of the cotton gin in 1793?
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
