HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Question
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Which group most likely received the greatest benefit from the invention of the cotton gin.
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factory managers
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Irish immigrants
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plantation owners
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textile workers
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The coal-fired steam engine was in many respects the decisive technology of the Industrial Revolution. Steam power was first applied to pump water out of coal mines.
Detailed explanation-3: -After working his way through college at Yale, Whitney moved to South Carolina. There he saw how hard it was to separate the green seeds from short-staple cotton. In just a few days in 1793, he invented a machine that could do the task ten times faster than a slave doing the work by hand.
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