How Did The Industrial Revolutionize The American Textile Industry?

As a young kid he loved to visit his father's workshop and take apart old clocks and little machines then put them back together. As he would sometimes watch the slaves, he noticed how hard it was to get all of the seeds out of cotton. He then, in 1792 graduated from Yale College. In just a short year after he graduated, in his spare time he invented the cotton gin. In the student reading, Cotton Gin, by Maureen Romero, it explains, “The cotton gin was a very simple invention. First, the cotton bolls were put into the top of the machine. Next, you turn the handle, which turns the cotton through the wire teeth that combs out the seeds. Then the cotton is pulled out of the wire teeth and out of the cotton gin.” What may sound like just a little invention with no impact is actually a little machine with one huge impact. Since cotton was now so much easier to get rid of the seeds, everyone started planting cotton and farmers planted even more cotton. Previously, no one planted cotton, because it took so long to pick out all of the seeds. Cotton was not the cash crop. Now it only takes two seconds to get all of the seeds out. Another plus on growing cotton, is it can grow anywhere even in land where all of the nutrients are dried out of the ground. This is what made it rise to the number one cash crop.

With the Industrial Revolution beginning in England around 1760 it gradually came to America over the years; however the effects were never fully felt until around 1830. It really all started in 1768 when the textile Industry was secretly brought to America by a man named Samuel Slater. “Slater told no one of his plans to leave England. If word spread, he

In the 1790’s the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney sparked an increase in cotton production in the South. The cotton gin decreased the labor time it took to pick seeds from the cotton. Slave owners moved or sold their slaves to deep Southern states

The Industrial Revolution brought Southern landowners an invention that they adopted and embraced: The Cotton Gin. Invented by Eli Whitney, the cotton gin made slavery profitable and made cotton the nation's number one export . The South also adopted the steam engine, mainly to aid the cotton gin and to use on steamships to transport cotton. Ironically, the success of the cotton gin, by fostering slavery, helped to separate the two sides of the country and bring about the Civil War .

In 1793, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a machine that removed seeds from cotton fiber. The cotton gin had a very important impact on society and economy. It was a basic, uncomplicated invention, yet, had a major effect during the Industrial Revolution (the change from an agrarian society to one based on industry which began in Great Britain and spread to the United States around 1800). The inventor, Eli Whitney, was encouraged by the system of free enterprise, the freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal government regulation, to invent a machine that would remove cotton seeds from cotton quickly. As a result, he invented the cotton gin which basically removed seeds from cotton in a fast and

When Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1794 there was not much of an impact at first, but once the 1800’s came around the cotton gin gained popularity. The cotton gin was used in the south by slaves to separate the cotton fiber from the seeds. It had teeth that pulled the fiber apart and let the seeds fall out. The north and south, both, were impacted by the cotton gin, but depending on who you ask; workers, slaves, slave/ plantation owners, mills owners; people would have different opinions.

The cotton gin was a simple machine which de-seeded cotton. Eli Whitney created this cotton gin in 1793 when he was in Georgia. When living on a plantation in Georgia, he heard some visitors complaining about how cotton was a nice crop to have but took too long to seperate from the seeds (Patchett, 17). The visitors were told about how Eli was a good mechanic and saw some of what Eli had made. The visitors at the plantation went to Eli asking him to make something to help with this cotton problem. At first Eli was reluctant to make anything for the men because he, as he said, “had no extraordinary mechanical skills”(Patchett,18). Secondly, he said he knew nothing of cotton for he had never seen cotton or cotton seeds. Then Whitney changed his mind knowing he couldn’t resist the challenge and began a search for cotton. Once he found some cotton it only took Eli a few days to have a machine in mind (Patchett, 19).

The cotton gin impacted the Southern States’ growth of slavery. Did you know, that the cotton gin’s process was inspired by how to the slaves cleaned the cotton? Eli Whitney (the inventor of the cotton gin), watched the slaves clean the cotton. He watched the slaves grab the seeds with one hand, and pull back the lint with the other. That is almost how the cotton gin works. The seed is stopped because it can’t fit through the opening. Then a brush comes and pulls back the lint.

In 1793 Eli Whitney revolutionized America’s South with his invention of the cotton gin machine. This machine separated the cotton rapidly, without the need of having slaves take out individual cotton that took a lifetime thus causing many injuries. The cotton gin was such a big success that it

Eli Whitney made the cotton gin in 1793 but was not patented until a year later. He began to work on the invention after moving to Georgia for work from picking tobacco. Tobacco was slowly

Eli Whitney was the inventor of the cotton gin and a pioneer in the mass production of cotton. Whitney was born in Westboro , Massachusetts., on Dec. 8, 1765, and died on Jan. 8, 1825. He graduated from Yale College in 1792. By April 1793, Whitney had designed and constructed the cotton gin, a machine that automated the separation of cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber.

First of all, the inventor of the cotton gin was the intelligent man himself, Eli Whitney.”Eli

Eli Whitney was the inventor of the Cotton Gin. Whitney was born on Dec 8, 1765 in Westboro, Massachusetts. At a early age Eli took an intrest to mechanic work. Eli wanted to work at his fathers shop making nail rather than working on his fathers farm. To earn money he worked at a school as a teacher he was later accepted to Yale and graduated at 1792. Near Savannah,Ga he took a job as a tutor for children on a plantation. Eli heard about a need for a machine to clean green-seed

Two years later, Whitney invented the cotton gin. It worked something like a kitchen strainer. Hooks in a wooden drum caught the cotton fibers and dragged them over a wire mesh. Whitney’s gin could remove the seeds from 50 pounds of cotton in a day.

America has been expanding and growing since its birth out of Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution has been an influence in the American life since it first in the 1700s. “Most families did not have enough to sell at the market- they had just enough for their own needs.” Up until the factories started booming and employment rates skyrocketed, people really couldn’t become wealthy and live a decent life. As the ways of farming grew the English at the time began to use up more and more land efficiently. “Unusable swamplands could be drained and used for crops.” That’s absolutely amazing that in this era they could turn swamps into areas to raise more crops so they can naturally make more money at the markets and become a bit wealthier. Farming is one of the most important lively hoods of mankind; no matter what argument anyone tries to make. If we didn’t have farming and agricultural production we wouldn’t have all the different sorts of food products we do, nor would they be as abundant. Life would be like it was before the Industrial Revolution came about and most of us would still be growing our own food and barely scraping by in life. With all this agricultural expansion of the time population in England start expanding drastically as well. Thanks to population growth people started to worry more about new inventions and producing stuff for us to make our day to day lives easier than we could have ever before. With all the technological advancements leading up to