ELI WHITNEY

Biography

• Born 1765 in Westboro, MA
• Died 1825
• Got educated at Yale
• Invented cotton gin in 1789

Early Life

• Grew up on a farm
• Grew up in the time of the Revultionary War
• Was an expert at making nails as a child

PERSONAL LIFE

• Married Henriette Edwards in 1817
• Had multiple children
• His son, Eli Whitney Jr., continued his father's work

COTTON GIN

PURPOSE

• Makes cleaning cotton 50 times more efficient
• Only needed a few men to opporate

PATENT

• Granted on March 14 1794
• Many people created their own pirated version of cotton gin
• This caused Whitney's profits to drop

IMPACT

• Caused a massive increase in cotton production in US
• Number of slaves grew due to higher production of cotton
• Southern states provided more than 2/3 of the cotton in US

WORKS CITED

• http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin
• http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/cotton-gin-patent/
• http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/gastudiesimages/Cotton%20Gin%201.htm
• http://www.thinglink.com/scene/489815685371789312