SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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The Cotton Gin
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The Spinning Wheel
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The Stream Engine
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Interchangeable Parts
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Detailed explanation-1: -Because of the cotton gin, enslaved people labored on ever-larger plantations where work was more regimented and relentless.
Detailed explanation-2: -Inventor, mechanical engineer and manufacturing pioneer, Eli Whitney is best known as the inventor of the cotton gin, patented in 1794. An unforeseen byproduct of Whitney’s invention, a labor-saving device, was to help preserve the institution of slavery in the South by making cotton production highly profitable.
Detailed explanation-3: -cotton gin, machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds, invented in the United States by Eli Whitney in 1793.
Detailed explanation-4: -Suddenly cotton became a lucrative crop and a major export for the South. However, because of this increased demand, many more slaves were needed to grow cotton and harvest the fields. Slave ownership became a fiery national issue and eventually led to the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-5: -Eli Whitney spent only a few months living in Georgia, but during that time, in 1793, he invented the cotton gin. Whitney’s machine expedited the extraction of seeds from upland cotton, making the crop profitable and contributing to its expansion across the South.