USA HISTORY

SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861

UNCLE TOMS CABIN

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What invention won George Harris the respect of his factory’s proprietor?
A
A cotton ginning machine
B
A hemp cleaning machine
C
A hemp twiner
D
Sliced bread
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -George Harris’s “machine for the cleaning of hemp” and Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin.

Detailed explanation-2: -Harris. George is talented and inventive. When he’s sent to work in a bagging factory, he invents a labor saving machine for cleaning hemp, which revolutionizes the way the factory works.

Detailed explanation-3: -However, George’s master removed him from the factory, saying that he only invented the machine because he was too lazy to work.

Detailed explanation-4: -George Shelby Called “Mas’r George” by Uncle Tom, George is the Shelbys’ good-hearted son. He loves Tom and promises to rescue him from the cruelty into which his father sold him. After Tom dies, he resolves to free all the slaves on the family farm in Kentucky.

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