...Eli Whitney's, Cotton Gin changed slavery, the South and American history because before the farmers living in the South who grew cotton could only remove could only remove the seed, from the soft fiber of cotton, from only about one-pound of short staple a day by hand which was not very slow to do since you had to take the seeds from one plant at a time. Soon after seeing the problem’s that American Cotton farmers had Eli Whitney had the idea of making the Cotton Gin that worked efficiently at removing the seeds from cotton and, the way that it worked is that you would put the cotton in the machine that had a series of hooks that would carry the cotton through a mesh that would be only big enough for the cotton fibers to go through, so the seeds would be separated instantly....
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...Although by 1820 slavery had been abolished in the northern states, the status of free blacks there was not better from that of free blacks in the southern part of the country. Except of New England; the northern blacks voting rights were denied. In the early nineteenth century New York required Blacks to own at least $250 worth of real property to vote, and New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut rescinded black suffrage In several Midwestern states blacks were prohibited from settling within their boundaries, using laws comparable to those banning free blacks from entering the southern states. In the northern cities, competition between blacks and immigrants—mainly the Irish—for low‐wage, unskilled jobs created tensions that erupted...
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...How did slavery affect slave's life in the south? Well, many slaves expressed their causes and effects of slavery clearly, their culture changed by all these hardships that slaves suffered! Many slaves had different opinions on slavery, but most slaves always believed they would have a chance to have a better future no matter how bad they were scared. Children childhoods were going to be a night mare just like the rest of the slave's life's! Firstly, families in the south were always hurt. For example, if a mother or father were sold away their family members or friends could raise their children that were left behind. Culture in the south is different, for instance, a slaveholder's death can break apart a family or even being sold can lead to a separation. When enslaved people got married their phrases for their ceremonies were "Unit death or separation do us part" (Chapter 9, 433), marriage...
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...the production of cotton. Plantation crops and the slavery system went through some drastic changes. To understand these changes, one must understand Slavery, inflation of crops and the industrial revolution. Slavery was very harsh the 18th century. Many families dealt with separation during this time, but luckily many remained married. Slaves lived in small shacks and provided food that was relatively cheap to the plantation owner. Slaves were forced to work, and when they didn’t work, they were beaten, starved or hung. In Virginia, 440,000 African Americans were taken from their homes (A 355). Millions of African Americans from all over the world were forced into...
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...The cotton gin, invented by a man named Eli Whitney in 1794 was a machine that pushed the textile industry many great leaps forward. The cotton farming industry, while profitable, had a major bottleneck. The ability to produce usable cotton for textiles was limited by a plantations speed at which it was capable at removing seeds from raw cotton. Prior to the invention of the cotton gin, this was a process done by hand, mostly by slaves. With the invention of the cotton gin however, the painstakingly difficult and slow job of seed removal was eliminated, and a single machine could do the work of many slaves, quickly and easily. For a short while, this reduced the general workload for slaves working on plantations growing cotton. However, with...
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...Chapter 16 THE SOUTH AND SLAVERY, 1793–1860 1. Part Three Introduction This introduction gives you a preview of the authors’ answers to certain key questions about the causes and consequences of the nation’s “awesome trial by fire,” the Civil War. Look at this section and list three major questions you think the authors will be addressing in the next seven chapters. (1) (2) (3) 2. Southern Economy and Social Structure a. Explain the connection between the invention of the cotton gin by Eli _________ in 17___ and the rapid expansion of short-staple cotton production based on slave labor in the South. If the cotton gin actually made picking seeds from cotton much easier, why did planters perceive a vastly increased need for slave labor? b. Cotton was king in both the South and in Britain. By 1840, cotton amounted to _____percent of U. S. exports and accounted for more than _____percent of the world’s supply. Britain’s economy was based on cotton textiles, and Britain got _____percent of its fiber supply from the South. (No wonder Southerners thought England would “be tied to them by cotton threads” in the event of conflict with the North.) c. List two negatives of this Southern plantation economy mentioned by the authors. (1) (2) d. Although most slaves were owned by the large-scale planters, most slave-owners held only a few slaves each, and often worked together with them in the fields. The chart on p. 353...
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...In 1793, Eli Whitney created the cotton gin in order to effectively remove seeds from cotton plants. The cotton gin wasn’t very complicated. First, a cotton plant was run through a wooden drum that included many hooks that would catch the cotton fibers. Then, the hooks would pull the cotton fibers through mesh leaving the seeds behind. Plantation owners looked to cotton farming as a way to gain a lot of money. The cotton gin brought Southerners remarkable wealth, creating conflicts between the North and the South. Southern plantation owners needed to increase their labor force in order to have the ability to make cotton at a fast rate. The cotton gin led to an economic boom in the United States. The invention of the cotton gin had...
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...nineteenth centuries. In determining the role that trans-Atlantic slavery played in shaping the United States economy, one need only to look to the expanding role of labor intensive agriculture, particularly cotton after the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney, as a major factor in this development. Slavery provided a reliable labor force that strengthened and increased the capitalism in the economy of the emerging United States. It was soon discovered by European colonists that the abundance of land they were settling was useless without sufficient labor to exploit it. The first attempts at filling these needs proved to be unsuccessful or unreliable. The Native...
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...The North and South were very different by the 1860's. Several changes took place within the nation during this time from an onset of events happening after the 1820's. Inside of America, slavery became a major issue that tore the nation into two. Northerners favored equality for all, while contrarily Southerners supported the bondage of slaves to continue the labor of cotton productions, and ultimately, to ensure white supremacy. “After abolition in the North, slavery became the 'peculiar institution' of the of South – an institution unique to southern society” (417). This was also another large factor which shaped the regions. Overall, between the 1820's and 1860's, many economical, social, cultural and political changes happened which divided the nation into two. The occurrence of several events widened the differences between the North and the South. Despite the Northerners hopes that slavery would eventually die out and equality for all would regulate the nation, “the institution of slavery survived the crisis of the American Revolution and continued to rapidly expand westward” (417). The onset of divisions between these two regions first occurred from the establishment of the Mason-Dixon line, which was placed between Pennsylvania and Maryland and became the diving line between slavery and freedom. After this, the South's slave population remained strong and grew substantially during this time. The old South was the largest and most powerful...
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...on wage manual worker, not slaves. At the same time, the Southern states continuously to depend on slaves for their agricultural economy and cotton manufacture. South made enormous revenues from cotton, slaves and struggled to sustain them. Northside did not require slaves to maintain their economy so they fought to free abolish slavery as whole from United States. History shows us the agricultural economy was indeed one cause of civil war, but it certainly wasn’t the only cause. Wars are complicated and there causes are not simple understandable. In this research paper we will discuss causes what started the Civil War. A war that separated the nations, ruined harvests, towns, and railroad lines. Many issues embarked the nation into disorder in 1861. Key administrative foundations contain the slow collapse of the Whig Party, the establishment of the Democrat Party and, the 1860’s voting of Abraham Lincoln as president. Religious disagreement to slavery also increased, braced by ministers and protestors such as “William Lloyd Garrison”. Ecological struggle over the extent of slavery into western lands and states grew. Administrative agreements, such as the “Missouri Compromise in 1820, Compromise of 1850, and Supreme Court rulings” were some causes that allocated the country even further. These division were enormous compare to the Cotton and economic issues. The essential story about industrial revolution, begins with the...
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...Hellen Wang Abraham Lincoln Essay In 1858, Abraham Lincoln said that "A house divided against itself cannot stand. ”In 1860, after Lincoln won the presidential election, Southern states began to secede from the United States. Tension between the North and South continued, as both regions had different views on slavery. During the eve of the Civil War, the Union and the Confederacy both had relative strengths. The North was fueled by an immigration boom, and a manufacturing economy with lots of new technologies like machines being used in agricultural, which whereas the South relied on the cash crop cotton to make profit, and were dependent on diplomatic and military assistance from England and France in return for cotton. By 1860, 90 percent...
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...Only around 25% of the population in the South owned slaves, so why defend it so adamantly? Before 1830, the South argued that slavery was a necessary evil, due to the fact that the emergence of cotton as an important cash crop making slaves necessary. After 1830 a number of factors appeared that forced the southern defense of slavery to refer to it as a positive good including, a heavy reliance on cotton production, it was vital for the continuance of a superior Southern lifestyle, and the belief that slaves were better off in the South than the immigrant workers in Northern factories. Slavery was key to prosperity in both the North and the South. Almost 60 percent of exports in the United States at the time were cotton products. Southerners would argue that if slavery was tampered with in the South, it would bring about the collapse of large industrial cities that were in the North....
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...li Whitney’s ingenious invention of the Cotton Gin in 1793 shows how inefficient manual slave labour is supporting Kolchin’s claims of slavery being an unviable method. Whitney presents his reasons for inventing a machine to gin cotton in a letter written to his father in the same year, where he states that this machine ‘would be a great thing both to the Country and to the inventor… It makes the labor fifty times less, without throwing any class of people out of business.’ This letter shows Whitney’s intent for helping to create a better and more efficient economy through his invention, which would decrease the amount of effort and labour need to pick, separate and clean cotton before sending it to cotton mills then to overseas trading. However, by stating that his invention would not put ‘any class’ out of work presents Whitney’s belief that slavery is a viable method of producing cotton and that making the Cotton Gin was by no means a replacement for slave labour but an extension of it....
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...Slavery was a lifestyle in the South. Under slavery, enslaved African Americans encountered many hardships, but they were able to create family lives, religious beliefs, and a distinct culture. African-American slaves were treated cruelly and in an inhumane way. In the 1800s, life for slaves in the South of involved resistance and survival. In the Southern states, the life of a slave is constantly in risk but, the most affected are the families. A family could easily be broken up at any time if one or both parents were sold to another slaveholder, "If a father or mother were sold away, an aunt, uncle, or close friend could raise the children left behind." (Pg.433). In case that a parent was sold, someone close to the family could raise their child. In fact, enslaved African-Americans saw in Christianity a light of hope that would help them continue, "Christianity became a religion of hope...
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...The history of the United States and its inception included the slavery of Africans. Africans were either sold to or trapped by their captors and brought to the American Colonies to serve their masters. In the beginning, the Africans were treated as indentured servants, wherein they worked for seven years and were released from service as free persons. Eventually, this policy was ended and the slaves were forced to work without compensation for their entire lifetime. Eventually, there was a move in the North to industrialized machinery and labor and slaves were no longer necessary for workforce purposes. Also, there was a faction of the population of the Northern states that simply believed that slavery was wrong and should not continue. These persons were known as abolitionists. However, it was the Southern States that continued to thrive on agricultural products. The continuation of this agricultural economic engine needed the labor provided by the slaves. This dependence was increased after the invention and patent of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1794. The “inadvertent result of the cotton gin’s success, however, was that it helped strengthen slavery in the South. Although the cotton gin made cotton processing less labor-intensive, it helped planters earn greater profits, prompting them to grow larger crops, which in turn required more people. Because slavery was the cheapest form of labor, cotton farmers simply acquired more slaves.”1 This disagreement continued...
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