THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
JAMES MADISON AFTER THE WAR OF 1812 THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS
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Fewer immigrants arrived as demand for labor decreased.
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The number of slaves grew as cotton production increased.
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Farms in the South became smaller as fewer workers were needed.
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The population in the South decreased as workers migrated to the North.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1793, Eli Whitney wrote a petition requesting a patent for his new invention, the cotton gin. He wrote that “if turned with horses or by water, two persons will clean as much cotton in one Day, as a Hundred persons could cleane [clean] in the same time with the ginns [gins] now in common use.”
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1808 and 1812, Whitney petitioned Congress to renew his cotton gin patent. His 1812 petition was referred to Representatives William Lowndes, Timothy Pitkin, Bolling Hall, Hugh Nelson, and Edwin Gray, but was not approved.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -While it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for enslaved labor to grow and pick the cotton. In fact, the opposite occurred. Cotton growing became so profitable for enslavers that it greatly increased their demand for both land and enslaved labor.
Detailed explanation-5: -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. By the mid-19th century, cotton had become America’s leading export.