The Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney In 1793 an American inventor named Eli Whitney born in December 8 1765‚ Massachusetts‚ USA created a modern mechanical machine called the Cotton Gin. This phenomenal machine separated cotton seeds from cotton fibres and was incredibly important as it dramatically reduced the amount of time spent separating the two from each other. Eli changed the agriculture and manufacturing revolutionised not only the cotton industry but the American industrial
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The Union held numerous advantages over the Confederacy at the start of the American Civil War. However‚ these advantages are hard to discern by merely looking at events‚ for the Union was unable to achieve victory for a full four years and suffered numerous defeats in the early years of the war. While the Civil War is well known for improving the civil rights of African Americans and ending slavery‚ it also holds other lessons in military strategy‚ lessons that still are apparent in the modern day
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Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin revolutionized the cotton industry in the United States. Prior to his invention‚ farming cotton required hundreds of man-hours to separate the cottonseed from the raw cotton fibers. Working by hand‚ a slave was only able to clean about a pound of cotton a day. Simple seed-removing devices had been around for centuries‚ however‚ Eli Whitney’s invention automated and industrialized the seed separation process. A single slave using this machine could generate
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Before the invention of interchangeable parts in 1798 by Eli Whitney‚ every product was handmade individually by a blacksmith or a specialist. For example‚ every gun was unquiet from each other (like having a different length in barrel). Each gun had to be constructed by hand which created every gun was one-of-kind. Gun-making was considered at the time a very skilled craft. When a gun broke‚ it could not be easily repaired. This process to create a gun was time consuming and costly. Interchangeable
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Eli Whitney has had more impact on American Society and culture than any other person in history for the three following reasons. For instance Eli Whitney was born into a small family who farmed for life. Education was always a must for Eli‚ he attended school most of his child life eventually ending up at Yale college and graduating just a few years later. As Eli entered the real world he realized that his passion was inventing and mechanics. After a few years of struggling he finally
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wondered why the Union won in the Civil War? Well I am going to give you some reasons why. The Union had better supplies and transportation than the Confederacy. The Union also had a larger navy‚ army‚ and a more experienced government. The North also had a lot bigger population than the South and the land was different. So Union had the bigger advantage in the army in the Civil War. So let’s start with a little background info about the Civil War. The war lasted from 1861-1865. The Union had about
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Katelin Foster 9/30/12 Period 5 US History The Civil War The Civil War was a fight between the Southern states and the Northern states. It began in 1861 and ended in 1865. The northerners referred to this war as the war to preserve the Union because that became the main goal of the Civil War. Slavery was one of the causes of the war‚ but in the end Lincoln’s goal became preserving the union. When Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin in 1783‚ cotton then became very profitable. Many farmers
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The challenges that the Union and the Confederacy faced during the Civil War were very different. Critical weaknesses that seemed unfit for war‚ plagued the opposing American forces‚ and would serve to be a continuous obstacle that would need to be conquered by patriotism of the people‚ for their opposing views. To allow for both sides to be competitive‚ the efforts put forth had to mold to the varied needs of the armies by both the civilian population and their militaries. To the people in the south
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actually like using that machine. Eli Whitney is an American inventor he was born on December 8‚ 1765 in Westboro ‚massachusetts and he died in 1825. Whitney studied in yale before inventing the anything. He grew up in a farm and had an affinity for machine work and technology.When he was youth during the revolutionary
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