THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION FACTORY SYSTEM AND MARKET REVOLUTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Interchangeable Parts
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Cotton Gin
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Designed to separate cotton fiber from seed, Whitney’s cotton gin, for which he received a patent on March 14, 1794, introduced a new, profitable technology to agricultural production in America. The cotton gin is a device for removing the seeds from cotton fiber.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -While Eli Whitney is best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin, he was also the father of the mass production method.
Detailed explanation-4: -The inventor of the cotton gin, Eli Whitney lived in Georgia for just a year, on Catharine Greene’s Mulberry Grove plantation near Savannah.