The Cotton Gin In the mid-19th century a war started that would change America forever. This was the civil war, a war in which the American nation was split into two nations who were divided over the practice of slavery. This war can easily be seen as the bloodiest event in America to date, so the machine that caused it is then the most threatening to American society. This machine is the cotton gin.
At the turn of the 19th century America was growing both in geographical size and in economy. In the south this economic expansion took the shape of a new “cash crop” called cotton. The southern United States had the perfect environment to grow cotton, and plenty of land to do it by since vast expanses of land in Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and
At the turn of the 19th century America was growing both in geographical size and in economy. In the south this economic expansion took the shape of a new “cash crop” called cotton. The southern United States had the perfect environment to grow cotton, and plenty of land to do it by since vast expanses of land in Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and