1. By: Diana Go Luis Badillo
The Cotton Boom
By:
Diana Go
Luis Badillo

2. Eli Whitney Invented a machine for cleaning cotton in 1793
(December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin

3. Cotton Gin (short for “engine”)
Made the cotton cleaning process for more efficient
A worker could clean just 1 pound of cotton in a day
With the new machine, one worker can clean 50 pounds of cotton in a day

4. When the cotton gin grew in popularity more people with cotton farms got more slaves to work to collect cotton

5. It made short-fibered cotton a commercial product
The cotton gin helped set the South on a different course of development from the North
It made short-fibered cotton a commercial product
Changed the Southern life in 4 important ways
It triggered many people moving west. Cotton spread to the Northern Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. Also crossed into Louisiana and Arkansas. In 1840, they reached Texas
Cotton was valuable so more people increased there cotton farms than any other crops
When cotton farms started moving more native Americans were driven off there lands
Cotton farm required many worker so they brought more slaves

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