By Byron Williams and Carlos Tiscareno The Cotton Boom By Byron Williams and Carlos Tiscareno
Eli Whitney An inventor who invented a machine for cotton cleaning One of his inventions were the cotton gin (short for engine) This invention helped set the south on a different course of development
Cotton gin This made the cotton-cleaning process far more efficient With the new machine the worker could clean as much as 50 pounds of cotton a day Cotton was so valuable, planters grew more cotton rather than other goods
Summary The cotton gin helped set the south on a different course of development This caused planters to grow more cotton rather than other goods, and cotton required a large work force and slavery continued to be important Cotton plantations began to spread to northern Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi Native Americans were driven off the southern land as it was taken over for cotton plantations