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Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney was an American inventor, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer. He is best remembered for inventing the cotton gin, an automated machine that separates the cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber.

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What is the significance of the cotton kingdom?

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It made a few rich, enhanced the southern economy and kept slavery alive.

What importance had Eli's Whitney's cotton gin?

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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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Why is Eli Whitney famous?

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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.

Did interchangeable parts have to do with mass production?

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Eli Whitney is usually given credit, but Honore Blanc was the first to demonstrate firearms assembled from interchangeable parts about 1778. Twenty years later Whitney performed essentially the same demonstration for the US Congress. Neither of these men were able to mass produce their firearms because the parts were still made by skilled craftsmen. In 1814, Eli Terry began production of a wooden clock but his methods were not adaptable to metal machines. Between 1819 and 1826, John Hall constructed specialized machines to cut, form, and mold metal parts for the M1819 Hall rifle at the Harper's Ferry Arsenal and was the first to mass-produce interchangeable parts. At about the same time, Simeon North created the first milling machine that eliminated much of the hand-filing previously required. North also received a contract from the US Congress to provide M1819 Hall rifles and soon parts from a gun produced in Virginia could be used to repair another produced in Connecticut and vice-versa.

How did Eli Whitney's cotton gin affect the value of slaves?

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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.

How did Eli Whitney get to the point where he could do this important cotton gin?

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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

How was Eli Whitney's cotton gin powered?

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small gins hand powered, larger one by horse or water wheel

Who invented the cotton gin near Savannah in 1793?

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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.

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What was the consequences of the cotton gin?

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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!

What did the cotton gin increase the need for?

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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.

What problems were solved by the cotton gin?

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Removing seeds from the cotton was a slow painstaking task, but Whitney made it much easier and less labor-intensive.

What effect did the cotton gin have on native Americans?

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the cotton gin could clean more cotton, therefore, the farmers needed more land so the native americans had to sell there land.

How did the cotton gin have an impact on prices?

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The cotton gin made processing cotton very easy. This caused a large amount of cotton that could be used in textile factories to the north. This abundance of cotton lowered the prices of clothing made out of cotton. This allowed poor people to own more clothing because of the cheaper costs.

What role did the cotton gin play in the growth and expansion of slavery?

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since the plantation owner's found out that cotton could be cleaned easily, quickly and cheaply they bought more slaves so that more cotton could be planted and cleaned. Most plantation owners became richer than they already were

What was the over impact of Eli Whitney's introduction of interchangeable parts?

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Which of Eli Whitney and ideas transformed manufacturing by making each copy of a manufactured item exactly alike?

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Which of Eli Whitney's ideas transformed manufacturing by making each copy of a manufactured item exactly alike? *

What idea of Eli whitneys transformed manufacturing?

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You can thank him the ability to have interchangeable parts. Without him we wouldn't be able to repair or replace worn out parts.

In what way did the introduction of interchangeable parts change labor productivity?

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Parts could be replaced on a machine without replacing the entire machine.

How was Eli Whitney's idea of interchangeable parts in the industrial revolution?

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Eli Whitney designed and built the Cotton Gin which made cotton production twice as fast. So factory owners could buy "Gins' and pay low level workers like women and children to work the machines and produce cotton.

What separated Elie from his mother sisters and grandmother?

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Elie was separated from his mother and sisters during the selection process at Auschwitz concentration camp. They were sent to the gas chambers, while Elie and his father were deemed fit for labor. Elie's grandmother was separated from him upon arrival at the camp and sent to the gas chambers.

How did Eli Whitney get money for college?

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He didn’t go to college. Most people didn’t in his time.