Well, if you're asking this from your Social Studies weekly (Week 21) The answer is Cotton gin, you can find this answer in the article titled "Unintended Effects."
The cotton gin factories were near lakes because they were crucial to power the cotton gin machines or they would not work.
slaves would work the cotton gins
Becuase of the gin it was much faster to pick to the cotton
before the cotton gin, peices of plant in the cotton were picked out by slaves, which of course was much slower. The cotton gin made the process of making cotton plants into usuable fabric was made much much easier. So people began growing more and more cotton.
You would not capitalize it. cotton gin
In the cotton gin
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No. It was created to remove cotton seed from the cotton. To remove the seeds without the gin meant hours of work picking them out by hand. With the cotton gin pounds of cotton could be processed and more grown.
The cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 weighed around 50 pounds.
I hung my cotton shirt up in the wardrobe.
cotton gin