Cotton Gin Project
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THE COTTON GIN
BY GABY, JACOB B, KAYA, SEBASTIAN
THE BASICS:
- Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793-94 in America
- Removed seeds from cotton fiber
- Doubled the production rate of cotton
- Made the demand of cotton greater, with the price dropping
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AMERICA'S ECONOMY
- The mass-production of cotton resulted in America gaining funds from selling goods (cotton, other things relating to cotton), therefore creating more factories, towns, and other sources of income.
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MORE FACTORIES = MORE POLLUTION
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION PAVED THE WAY FOR MODERN POLLUTION.
THE POPULATION
- The large amount of factories also caused overpopulation in many cites, due to the fact that more jobs were available in areas with more of those said factories.
- This caused the unsanitary nature of many big cities, and possibly homelessness.
COTTON PRODUCTION INCREASED DRASTICALLY AFTER THE COTTON GIN, SO
IT CAUSED A BOOST IN THE ECONOMY WITH THE GOODS SOLD, AND MORE SLAVES.
HOW THE COTTON GIN AFFECTED SLAVERY
- One out of every three southerners were slaves
- States with slaves increased from 6 to 15
- (The split nation eventually lead to the civil war)
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THE NUMBER OF STATES WITH SLAVES INCREASED AFTER THE COTTON GIN BECAUSE FARMERS NEEDED MORE HANDS.
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- Overall, the cotton gin affected multiple aspects of America physically and socially with the pollution of the air, overpopulation, slavery, and the American economy.
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S O U R C E S
- https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/cotton-gin-patent
- https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=14
- https://www.nps.gov/resources/person.htm%3Fid%3D129
- Ira Berlin: Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves, Cambridge, London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003 (second graph/chart)
