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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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How did Eli Whitney's mother die Eli is cool?

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There is limited public information available about the cause of Eli Whitney's mother's death. Therefore, the specific details surrounding her death are not widely known.

Were there any hobbies that Eli Whitney did?

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It appears he graduated from Yale University with a bachelors degree.

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Is gin bad?

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Depends. If it's cruddy gin, it's terrible to the taste. Maybe a nice Blue Sapphire or Tanqueray is quite delicious with some sours and a cherry.

Gin, like all liquor, is technically a poison for your body that has to be filtered out by your liver and kidneys. However, enjoyed responsibly, it is no more dangerous than other hard liquors like whiskey, tequila or vodka.

How did the cotton gin lead to the growth of the institution of slavery?

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What grade are you in? (lol)

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- The cotton gin affected slavery because after the cotton gin was invented more slave owners wanted slaves in order to be able to organize the cotton. Since this machine worked really fast in the process of taking the seeds off the cotton, the slaves would have to also work faster to get the cotton & organize it without stopping (even if the machine was to fast).

How was clothing made before the cotton gin?

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By sewing by hand with a needle and thresd.

Why did Eli Whitney Cotton gin lead to the spread of slavery into more of the south?

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The cotton gin made cotton production more profitable, as long as the slave labor remained. More planters pursued larger profits under the plantation system.

It made the cotton trade so profitable that Southern leaders were strongly motivated to preserve slavery and extend it, if possible.

Growing cotton became more profitable, growers expanded crop acreage, and more slaves were needed to grow the cotton.

Where is the biggest cotton gin?

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Burton Cotton Gin in Texas, I believe.

What was an unintended negative effect of the cotton gin?

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I am doing an essay on this right now so I would be glad to answer your question.

The positive effects of the "cotton gin" was that it made producing cotton so much easier. Before Eli Whitney invented the "cotton gin", picking the seeds out of the cotton plants were so laborious and time consuming. but now, it was easy and fast, and farmers made much more money.

The negative effects of the "cotton gin" was that it made the need for slaves greatly increase, and the number of slave states shot up. Plantations grew, and work became regimented and relentless (unending).

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How did the cotton gin have an impact on transportation?

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Cotton bolls are transported by first being compacted into modules with a machine called a module builder. A module is kind of like a bale of cotton, except it weighs 10,000 to 20,000 pounds. Once the module is built, it is loaded onto a flatbed truck and hauled to the cotton gin.

(An update: Since I wrote that, John Deere and IH Case have introduced new cotton pickers that have onboard module builders. The minimodules so produced are round and weigh 5000 pounds. A fully equipped John Deere 7760 cotton picker is nearly $900,000 and you only need it two weeks a year, so many of the guys who have these are contract cotton harvest operators. They like the machine because it dramatically cuts down on the number of workers needed.)

After the bolls are processed into cotton lint, it is compressed into "standard density bales." These can be transported in regular dry vans or railroad boxcars.

When the cotton is spun into yarn, woven into cloth and made into finished goods, it can be transported like any other dry freight is transported.

Who invented the cotton gin which caused an increased in slavery?

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Eli Whitney. Slavery increased because cotton production greatly increased after the cotton gin was invented.

Where can you buy womens cotton quilted robes?

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Here's a quilted robe, but it's cotton/polyester. http://www.wittmanntextiles.com/susosnfrcoro.html

What impact did the invention of the cotton gin have on other industries?

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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.

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.

Incidently, "gin" is short for "engine."

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.