1. What was the primary function of the commissioners? Who appointed the first commissioners and why? The primary function of the commissioners was to convince the other slave states to join them in secession.…
Eli Whitney invented his cotton gin in 1793 but was not patented until a year later. He began to work on this invention after moving to Georgia for work from picking tobacco. Tobacco was…
Are you to willing wake up early every morning to sit outside for hours and hours in the heat separating cotton seeds from cotton fibers? Well slaves didn’t have a choice until a us-born inventor named Eli Whitney came up with the idea of the cotton gin. For those who may not know, the cotton gin is a machine, invented on April in 1793, that separated cotton easier and faster than by doing it by hand. As a side note, Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts, on December 8, 1765 and died in 1825. Eli Whitney came up with this invention to help slaves separate cotton seeds easier and faster from the cotton fibers.…
The cotton gin was invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney. This innovative yet simple invention had a rather large impact on the history of the United States by revolutionizing the cotton industry. What took an entire day to accomplish, the cotton gin completed within minutes. The cotton gin was operated in the following manner. First, the cotton bolls were placed into the top of the machine.…
The creation of Eli Whitney revolutionized America and changed the way people valued others. The cotton-gin was a machine that removed the seeds from the cotton about fifty times faster than a slave per day. The cotton-gin mostly affected the eastern-southern part of America because of the large cotton farms. From 1800 to 1820 annual cotton production quadrupled and unfortunately the amount of slaves increased as well. In thirty years (1800 - 1830)…
Born on December eighth, seventeen sixty-five on a farm in Westborough, Massachusetts, Whitney left his home as a college graduate from Yale to travel to the South in order for him to tutor on a plantation to pay off school debts. Once Whitney noticed the desperation of the South’s condition, he continued to encourage his employer, Catherine Greene, to fix simple inaccuracies that would be financially beneficial to the upcoming business. Greene’s foundation of assisting the budget, and their combined moral efforts set up the proper groundwork for the invention’s success, leading to the accomplishment of the product’s patent. Historians have contemplated the idea of Greene designing the cotton gin, implying that Whitney simply constructed the material together and applied for the machine’s patent since women could not do so at the time. The young machine’s capability consisted of collecting twenty bales of cotton for every single bail collected by slave labor, which consisted of the procedure of extracting seeds from the cotton fibers.…
One important invention to American society was the Cotton gin, a machine invented in order to separate cotton fibers that had previously had to be done by one’s hand. In 1793 however, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, sparking a revolution of the cotton industry and assisting in enhancing the American economy. This was in part due to the way in which Schussele decided who to include…
Name: Instructor: Course: Date: The causes of the Civil War The civil war lasted for a period of 4 years from the year 1861 to 1865. The war led to more than six hundred thousand casualties.…
1. What are some of the long-term causes of the American Civil War (1800s-1850s)? Please give at least 2 examples. The American Civil War was driven by long-term causes and short-term causes.…
Eli Whitney was born on December 8, 1765 in Westboro, Masseuses. Mr. Whitney went to Yale collage. After collage Eli Whitney made an invention called the cotton gin. Which picked 50lbs. of cotton a day.…
The Civil War was an inevitable incident. For decades, the North and South had been splitting apart due to their differing economies, beliefs regarding slavery, and political views, including states ' rights. While there were efforts to resolve the issues, primarily the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, these were failed endeavors and did not stop the forthcoming events. The South had an economy that heavily relied on agriculture as the primary form of income while the North was becoming an industrial society. With Eli Whitney 's invention of the cotton gin in the early 1790s, many plantations in the South essentially made the switch to produce more cotton.…
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of congressional statutes passed in September of 1850, in which the United States Congress sought out to settle conflicts between those who opposed slavery in the North and those in favor of slavery in the South. There is much speculation about what the United States would be like today without this Compromise. Which leads to the question, should the Compromise have ever been approved? Still, regardless if the Compromise was approved or not, the Civil War was an inevitable event in American history. The Compromise of 1850 was an attempt to solve tensions between the North and the South over the expansion of slavery, specifically into Texas, which was a territory obtained by the United States in the Mexican…
This reduced the wheel’s usage to a toy because it was unable to be implemented for trade and agriculture. A modern example of the influence economic benefit has towards the rate of adopting new technologies is the cotton gin, a hand-cranked machine that separates cotton fibers and seeds. Invented by Eli Whitney in U.S during 1791, it revolutionized the processing of cotton in the southern cotton industry. The raw cotton was laden with seeds, which must be removed by hand. This labor-intensive process demanded more expensive slaves to process the cotton for efficiently.…
Introduction The American Civil war occurred during the years 1861 – 1865, and as stated in the article titled “The Civil War”, it “was the cauldron that created modern America. The war preserved the Union, ending the possibility of the American nation dividing into two or more separate countries, in the process altering the nations politics and government, creating a strong presidency and an increasingly important federal infrastructure” (Finkelman sec. 1) However, the American Civil War did not come without coast, as wars never do, an estimated 620,000 men lost their lives in the line of duty. One of the many, yet major causes of this war, came about through slavery; and the standpoint that the northern states took, wanting to abolish slavery,…
This led to the rise of the civil war in which the black people wanted to be free from the rule of the white person; this aspect is both a negative and a positive effect of the invention of the cotton gin. It is positive because it led to the abolition of slavery and it is negative because it led to bloodshed because of the civil war. We cannot really say the inventor of the cotton gin was not Eli Whitney, but we can say that the cotton gin that he presented before the U.S patent office was a more mechanically advanced cotton gin. Eli Whitney’s advanced cotton gin reduced the labor required in production and increased the production of cotton and cotton products. It also led to an increase on slave trades which also led to more African American families being torn apart during…