Cotton

Cotton gin is short for Cotton engine. This new process of producing cotton contributed to mills in Great Britain and the American northeast. The innovation of machinery caused the south to become the world 's largest producer of cotton in during the time of the 19th century. This victory of the economy was followed by a human disaster as well. By 1820, a majority of the northern states completely prohibited slavery, but cotton led to a great amount of financial…

on tobacco, cotton, and sugar. These were also known as cash crops (Economy of the South 36). Second, since farmers didn’t pay slaves for their labor, their profits turn out to be falsely high (Economy of the South 36). Finally, because farmers were making so much money from growing cotton, they did not see the need to have manufacturing and industry. (Economy of the South 36). The two major cash crops, cotton and sugar, had an affect on the Civil War and the South’s economy.…

to do the work of five hired hands and to shift from subsistence farming to growing cash crops. In 1793, a New Englander, Eli Whitney, invented a cotton gin that successfully separated the fibers of short-staple cotton from the seed. Quickly copied and improved upon by others, Whitney's invention removed a major obstacle to the westward spread of cotton cultivation. It thereby gave a new lease on life to plantation slavery and undermined the doubts of those who considered slavery economically…

the cotton gin. The cotton gin was the most important invention during the 1800’s because it made the Southern states dependent on it slave labor, it boosted the American economy tremendously, and it forced Great Britain and France to side with the Confederacy during the Civil…

production of cotton throughout the south. Making it much easier for it to be picked and cleaned for sale to northern textile industries. Eli Whitney was an American inventor who created the cotton gin and pushed the interchangeable parts mode of production. By the mid-19th century, cotton had become America’s leading export.In 1794, Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.…

Since cotton required large amounts of land to grow on, a nation had to be totally committed to its production to make any profit. Because South-Eastern America had large amounts of unsettled land, it made it the perfect place to grow cotton. This allowed cotton to become prevalent in these areas. Originally, the cotton was grown on small farms which eventually expanded into large plantations. Eventually, land was…

Invention of the Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney. The invention of the Cotton Gin made a drastic increase in the production of cotton. Markets expanded with more and more technology that would help with the production of cotton, leading to a drastic increase in slave labor. 3) The Invention of Railroads and Steam Engines Expanded markets, caused by increased cotton production, also led to the invention of railroads and steam engines. This was caused by the increased demand for cotton. Railroads…

specifically the invention of the cotton gin. After graduating from Yale in the late 1700s, Eli Whitney moved to Georgia and took up a job as a tutor to pay off his student debt. After failing as a tutor, Whitney was referred to his landlady by a friend as a “person of both mechanical ability and social skills” (Wren and Greenwood). Whitney’s landlady, a woman by the name of Catherine Greene, exploited his skills and asked him to devise a machine that could pick apart the cotton fibers…

was marked by increasing reliance on industrialism, transportation, and diversification. The South’s economy was almost solely dependent upon the production of cotton, only made profitable by the Cotton Gin and slave labor. By 1860, the North had more railroad track, canals, manufacturing and population than the South. The idea that cotton was the basis for the whole of the American economy was an illusion. When sectionalism exploded into Civil War, the agrarian South was doomed to inevitable…

central to forging of a new global economic order and eventually the emergence of capitalism” (Beckert, 37). Slavery became very important during this new system because it deported millions of African to the Americas because it helped to secure more cotton production. War capitalism needed the division of the world into inside and outside and they relied on the rich or the ones that had the power to divide these units. The inside and outside are very different, the inside is state enforced…