lifetime. Slaves were cheap and the economy was growing. The articles of confederations wasn’t pro-slavery‚ it just didn’t address it. There hope that it would die out would eventually come to an end when the cotton gin hits the United States. When Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin and he himself had hoped that the machine would help end slavery but it did just
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The Jacksonian period (1828-1848)‚ or the “era of the common man” influenced the lives of the people greatly. President Jackson brought in politics by expanding the voting rights‚ developed the economy in such ways to give reassurance to the nation and partook in various reform movements that led to bettering the lives of American Citizens. All of these together caused the Jacksonian period to live up to the characterization of the “era of the common man.” President Jackson was well known for universal
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foundation of their economy. The South relied on slaves to plant and harvest America’s biggest cash crop: cotton. “The cultivation of the great staple crops cannot be carried on in any portion of our country where there are not slaves” (Document B). Eli Whitney‚ an inventor born in the Northern state of Massachusetts‚ created the cotton gin in hopes to create less of a need for slavery. However‚ this plan backfired when plantation owners used Eli’s invention to harvest even more cotton which required even
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why lean Lean Manufacturing is not especially new. It is derived from the Toyota Production System or Just in Time Production‚ Henry Ford and other predecessors. The lineage of Lean manufacturing and Just In Time (JIT) Production goes back to Eli Whitney and the concept of interchangeable part in the 1850’s. It was finally when Taichii Ohno and Shigeo Shingo introduced Toyota Production System which in true sense talked about lean manufacturing. Todd(2000) defines lean production as “initiative
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most of these inventions‚ the world would not be the same. While the invention of the cotton gin and telephone were both immensely impactful‚ this one proved to be just a step ahead in the category of revolutionary. In 1793‚ the American inventor Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. This was a machine that automated and sped up the process of separating cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber. Before this invention‚ workers had to hand pick out the cotton seeds. This was an exhausting and grueling
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Eli Whitney created the first musket with interchangeable parts that were all made exactly alike. The Industrial Revolution was a movement when many machines that were more efficient replaced hand tools that were efficient. In the North‚ they were more focused
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The Industrial Revolution and the Civil War drastically changed the era of the second half of the 19th century. The inventions of Eli Whitney‚ Thomas Savery‚ and Edmund Cartwright greatly improved the lives of many‚ alleviating the difficulty of everyday tasks. Farmers all across America welcomed the Cotton Gin with loving‚ open arms because it made their work almost effortless. The large amount of time it took for the gruesome task of separating seeds from the cotton was replaced with a machine
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sugar - Growing population - Stable government promoted industry Corporation: when a joint stock company was chartered by a state it became a corporation - Limited liability – Board and shareholders - increased investment opportunities - Eli Whitney and his uniformity system/interchangeable system - basis of mass production The Factory System: - Francis Cabot Lowell‚ Waltham Mass.‚ 1813 - the factory town‚ Lowell‚ permanent working class - Northern wages slavery‚ southern opportunity
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Agricultural Invention: compound bow‚ riding saddle‚ and the cotton gin Agriculture has many things to do with inventions. Now you might think that inventions only consist of science and technology. Even though this is true‚ science and technology are involved in agriculture too‚ but the invention themselves is related to agriculture by its purpose or how it is used and by whom. For example‚ the compound bow. It is used for hunting and to bring in a “harvest” of game for food. That is agriculture
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After the creation of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793‚ many saw how fast the process of cotton picking had become. After the purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1803‚ many cotton planters rushed to the new land to build cotton plantations. Slaves started the foundations of the cotton plantations
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