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    Cotton Mathers

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    Cotton Mather Description: He was the son of Increase Mather‚ and grandson of both John Cotton and Richard Mather‚ all also prominent Puritan ministers. Mather was named after his maternal grandfather‚ John Cotton. He attended Boston Latin School‚ where his name was posthumously added to its Hall of Fame‚ and graduated from Harvard in 1678 at age 15. After completing his post-graduate work‚ he joined his father as assistant pastor of Boston’s original North Church.[1] In 1685 Mather assumed

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    Between 1800-1860‚ cotton had an enormous increase in production‚ and the factors which influenced the increase were demand‚ technology‚ and resources. One important factor to the increase of cotton was demand. The demand of cotton was constantly growing which is why people invested their time into cotton production. Without the demand‚ cotton would not need to be produced as much. Although southerners sold other products‚ cotton was the district’s leading export. The country of Great Britain

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    Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin

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    invented a simple machine called the cotton gin. The main purpose of this machine was to automatically separate the cotton fibers from the seeds. Similar machines already existed for long-staple cotton‚ but they did not work with short-staple cotton. The basic concept was the same‚ using brushes to separate the two parts of the cotton. Whitney’s design‚ however‚ used spiked teeth to pull the fibers from the seed more effectively than previous machines. Whitney’s cotton gin only contained a few parts.

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    In many high schools‚ slavery is often a subject that is glanced over and mildly talked about. However‚ cotton and cotton-related inventions‚ such as the cotton gin‚ are the themes of many class lectures. It is wrongful not to explore and debate the relation between slavery and cotton in the South. It has been proven time and time again that the two are not mutually exclusive; the cotton industry directly--and indirectly--influenced slavery through purely its numbers‚ high demands‚ the “American

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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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    Ronald Reagan

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    Whitney Davis Mr. Greenlee English II January 28 2013 President Ronald Reagan Most of the world knows Ronald Reagan as the 40th President of the United States of America but many do not know how he got to be one of the greatest communicators the world has yet to face. Reagan wasn’t born into politics like most may think but raised as the average person in Dixon‚ Illinois. From the start he was set on being a leader. Ronald Regan opened the eyes of many Americans as he stepped into office with

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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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    Ronald Reagan

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    the American people elected Ronald Reagan as President of the United States of America. Many people claim that Reagan was one of the greatest presidents of all time‚ while others believe that the country would have been much better off had Reagan never been elected. Regardless of their political preferences‚ it is undeniable that Ronald Reagan changed the world in the 1980s and his work as president will be forever remembered in the countless books of history. Ronald Reagan ran as a Republican

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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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