USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The invention of the cotton gin led to increased demands for enslaved labor in the American South, reversing the economic decline that had occurred in the region during the late 18th century. The cotton gin thus “transformed cotton as a crop and the American South into the globe’s first agricultural powerhouse".

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1808, and again in 1812, he petitioned Congress for a renewal of his patent. After the invention of the cotton gin, the yield of raw cotton doubled each decade after 1800.

Detailed explanation-3: -The gin improved the separation of the seeds and fibers but the cotton still needed to be picked by hand. The demand for cotton roughly doubled each decade following Whitney’s invention. So cotton became a very profitable crop that also demanded a growing slave-labor force to harvest it.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1794, U.S.-born inventor Eli Whitney (1765-1825) patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.

Detailed explanation-5: -cotton gin, machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds, invented in the United States by Eli Whitney in 1793.