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IMPACT OF THE COTTON GIN
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Invention: Cotton Gin in 1793

Definition: The cotton gin is a mechanical device which removes the seeds, seed hulls, and other small objects from the fibers of cotton, a process which until that time had been very labor-intensive.

Patent: X72 (US) issued March 14, 1794 Inventor: Eli Whitney (born Elias Whitney)
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Criteria: First to invent. First to patent. First practical. Entrepreneur.

Birth: December 8, 1765 in Westborough, Massachusetts

Death: January 8, 1825 in New Haven, Connecticut)

Nationality: American

http://www.docsouth.unc.edu/nc/king/ill213.html

=Impact Of the Cotton gin:= Due to the invention of the cotton gin, a lot of plantation owners converted their crops to cotton.This created a lot of problems for the Slaves.First, Owners wanted more land for their cotton,so the needed and imported more slaves to do their work. The more slaves they used the faster the cotton was produced,so in the end the plantation owners were really rich and had lots of slaves.Very unfortunate.

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