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    The Cotton Gin Invention "Go get the cotton so the people can get the seeds out‚" his dad said. Eli was a boy who lived on a farm with a normal family that was going to do a great thing in his life. He went around and asked farmers what they think was most hard. Most of the answers were the same. "On a farm what do you think is most difficult to do?" Eli told the farmer. "Obviously the getting the seeds out of the cotton‚" replied the farmer. "Can you hand me that ranch‚" said Eli. He began

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    The cotton gin had many effects. I believe that the cotton gin effected people in a negative and positive way and it also helped pave way for many other important inventions we use today. The cotton gin was a machine that basically made collecting cotton much easier the way the cotton gin worked was cotton was run through a wooden drum embedded with a series of hooks that caught the fibers and dragged them through a mesh. The mesh was too fine to let the seeds through but the hooks pulled the cotton

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    invention like the Cotton Gin. This technological advancement led to impact on the industries and farms. Also‚ this invention created a dramatic change that had positive and negative impacts. The Cotton Gin led to many changes in the southern states due to the multiple causes and effects associated with the invention. Many events leading up to the creation of the Cotton Gin had many impacts on the Cotton Gin invention. In the early 18th century‚ it was difficult to harvest cotton and it took an abundant

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    place in England. The cotton gin‚ invented by Eli Whitney‚ was perhaps the invention that bore the most importance of the time period and had the greatest impact on United States society. Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793. In an attempt to earn money so that he could pay off student debts from Yale University‚ he employed himself as a tutor in Georgia. While spending time in the state‚ Whitney became aware that farmers faced obstacles when it came to extracting the cotton from the seed itself

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    wholesalers and exporters of Cotton Textiles‚ Handloom‚ and Woolen Textiles etc. From the production of textile machinery and equipment‚ dyes and raw materials to the delivery of finished textiles‚ fabrics and garments‚ the textile industry in India has the vast potential for creation of employment opportunities. The number of textiles manufacturers‚ suppliers‚ wholesalers and textiles exporters in India has increased rapidly after independence. Today‚ handloom and cotton textiles exports in India is

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    was the man who invented the Cotton Gin‚ and made the Cotton production go along ten times faster. Eli Whitney was born in 1765‚ and grew up on a farm in Massachusetts. When he had grown older‚ he got a job at a tobacco plantation in South Carolina. But with the growing cotton industry in the south‚ Whitney’s employers turned to growing cotton. Eli Whitney saw how hard it was to grow and manufacture cotton‚ because it took many hours to get the seeds out of the cotton‚ then spin into clothing. With

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    DBQ The cotton and cloth production in Japan has greatly increased. Japan is hiring more and more workers preferably females workers. The women don’t get paid the first year‚ says the older sister of Aki (Document 3). Most of the entire factory workers were farmers; they went to work in the factories to make more money for their families’ (Document 5). “For the last few decades there has been a rapid decline of hand woven cloth”‚ (Document 6) this just shows you that machines are taking over

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    The cotton industry grew increasingly popular during the 1880s and continued its growth all the way to the 1930s. Two of its major producers were India and Japan‚ and although they both worked in the production of cotton‚ they had various differences. They used the same employees but their production rates were not the same. The living conditions in which the people worked also seemed to have been better in India than Japan. And the percentage of female laborers was much higher in Japan. Documents

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    Cotton Industry Through the beginning of evolution of humans one of the most common utilities used were cotton for clothing and other things. As trading became popular through Asia and machines were invented the owners would usually use many workers and get a low wage out of their work just as in Japan and India. The cotton industries throughout Japan and India became a great success in the period 1880s to the 1930s. A similarity of these countries was that they both recruited laborers who worked

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    the Cotton Gin ! ! ! Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin around 1763. At the time he invented the engine Whitney lived with Catherine Greene‚ a widowed plantation owner. While staying with Greene‚ Whitney learned a lot about the production of cotton. He learned it was a tedious‚ time consuming and labor intensive job. Whitney was a graduate of Yale and was talented in the field of mechanics and inventive engineering. Eli’s solution was simple‚ an engine that separated the cotton after

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