Positives: How did The Cotton Gin Help?
- Before it required a total of 100 man hours to separate cotton seed away from raw cotton fibers
- The Cotton Gin automated the separation process
- The machine could generate up to fifty pounds of cleaned cotton
- England highly benefited from the production of cotton separated by using the Cotton Gin
- Price of cotton decreased by a tremendeous rate
- cleaned cotton as fast as 50 people
- produced a cash crop for the South
- revived the institution of slavery
- in the South, sandy soils supported the growth
- revolutionized the cotton industry in the United States
- the invention automated the seed separation process
- it can generate up to 50lbs of cleaned cotton daily
- the South provided 2/3 of the world's cotton supply
- South: maintaining slavery was the main motivation for southern secession 1860 and 1861