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The cotton gin removes the seeds from the cotton. This is a more difficult and slower process when done by hand, without the use of a cotton gin.
Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin.
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
The cotton gin was first used in India.
Eli Whitney is credited with inventing the cotton gin in 1793.
The cotton gin made slavery more profitable. The cotton gin made the process of separating the seeds from cotton fifty times faster.
it made the process of separating seeds from cotton faster-NovaNet
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You would not capitalize it. cotton gin
I hung my cotton shirt up in the wardrobe.
cotton gin
It speeded up the processing of cotton by approximately a 50/1 ratio. That's a whale of a leap forward.
It was called the cotton gin because it separated seeds from the cotton, so that is how the invention got is name.
Before the cotton gin the cotton seeds had to be hand picked out of the tight knit bolls. This took a long time and was labor intensive. Cotton can't be processed with the seeds still in the bolls. The cotton gin removes the seeds by having brush type rollers tear apart the cotton boll and the seeds fall to the bottom. The seeds are used for the next crop of cotton and the gin meant that much more cotton could be planted which led to the need for a larger population of slaves.
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."
After the cotton is picked it is sent to a gin. The gin removes the seeds and the cotton is cleaned and bailed for shipment.
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