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    become king? Well in the 1800s cotton begin to turn around South Carolina’s economy in a profitable way. Most of the work was done by the slaves and other people. Cotton made impacts on society, lives of slaves. Therefor, cotton shall rise and change the world have great impact on everyone. To start off with, the rise of king cotton start off with the need of cotton. 1800 cotton was on high demand from factories, mills, and textile industries. So many people saw that cotton was a great cash crop. Indiog

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    Whitney was one of the people I admire because of his talent to create something so amazing as the cotton gin. Eli Whitney’s cotton gin made the cotton production very profitable, which increased the amount of slavery and caused a civil war to start. Without Eli’s invention, it would've been much harder working with cotton than it is today. In this paper you should learn about Eli Whitney, the cotton gin and how it caused the civil war to begin. So, let's jump back in time to learn more about this

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    Often overlooked, the cotton gin was a driving force in westward expansion, the continued brutal treatment and destruction of native peoples, the growth of slave trade, and the advancement of the northern and southern economies. With the increased profitability of cotton, the hope of enslaved blacks for freedom was quickly extinguished and the growing tension between the North and the South hailed the advent of the Civil War. The 1800s, due to the widespread use of the cotton gin and access to new

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    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

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    those products will be distributed to different branches to sell to the customers. In this paper, it is to propose a change in the procurement process of raw materials and cotton in the planning stage. In UNIQLO, most of the clothes are produced from white cotton, such as their T-shirts, tank tops and innerwear tops, etc. Cotton is one of their major

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    Eli Whitney's Inventions

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    Eli Whitney was an American inventor who is best known for his invention called the Cotton Gin. He was born on December 8, 1765, Westborough, MA. Where he grew up on a farm and had an fond for machine work and technology. As a child during the Revolutionary War, he became an expert at making nails from a device of his own invention that led to him later crafting canes and ladies’ hatpins. As he grew up, Whitney decided to go to Yale and graduated in 1792 with achieving a law degree. Upon graduating

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    expanse of cotton production in America. Several new inventions began to be used which could more efficiently use cotton and other similar materials to aid in the production of textiles. During that time, the textile industry was big and the demand for cotton continued to grow however the price of cotton never increased to match the demand. Slaves were taken advantage of and because their labor was so cheap it was beneficial to slave owners to collect cotton using slave labor and trade the cotton for a

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    follow the path of gradual emancipation that the northern states had raged. The economies of the south and north, continues to go in opposing directs. By 1791, they were already producing 2 millions of pounds of cotton that made British textile industry to have a vast appetite for cotton corp. That made the North and South profit from

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    Florida Southwestern State College Research Paper The Revolution of the Cotton Gin Kaizha D. McRae History of World Civilization 1815 to Present: WOH1030 James Richardson July 16, 2015   Every day millions of people wake up, get dressed and head out for a long day of work. Many of these people may work at a local McDonald’s, Wal-Mart, Dillard’s, or gas station. Some people choose to work at home on a computer blogging, selling items on the internet and even making entertaining videos

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    the story of Nelson Reinsch and his ability to keep an open mind in order to benefit from an ever-changing system of comparative advantage. Nelson worked his entire life as a cotton farmer, most of which was in the “cottonest city in the world,” Lubbock Texas. It was fascinating to hear first-hand accounts of how the cotton industry changed throughout Nelson’s life. Nelson adapted to the changing industry where farmers stuck in their traditional ways were eventually left behind. Nelson and other

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