Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Please help..quick Civil War true or false question?

The invetiuon of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney caused the instituion of slavery to dissapear.





True or false. Please help..quick Civil War true or false question?
false





if anything, the cotton gin enabled the cotton industry, which was largely supported by slave labor, to truly become the leading industry in the American SouthPlease help..quick Civil War true or false question?
False. On a lot of counts. Eli Whitney didn't really invent the cotton gin, which had been around since the 1740s. He did invent a gin that worked on American cotton, but his was inefficient and the wire brush had to be cleaned all the time. Hodgen Holmes invented one that didn't need cleaning, as it used sawteeth.





The cotton gin automated cotton production just enough that more planters wanted to grow it. Before the cotton gin was produced, a slave could only clean seeds out of about a pound of cotton a day. The gin made it possible for a slave to produce about 100 pounds of cotton a day. So more planters went into cotton production and bought slaves.





Most aspects of cotton production, such as planting and picking it, were still very labor intensive, and would be done mostly by hand up until the 1950s. Slaves were seen as the solution to crops that needed lots of labor.





I hope you've been going to class, and paying attention in it. This one is a common-sense type question that I as a history teacher would expect you to know just from reading the question.
False, lol.
yes made it easier to pick cotton
false.
No, why not read up on it.....

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