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Georgia's Economy Dbq

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How Did the Cotton Gin shape Georgia's Economy? In 1794, Eli Whitney made the Cotton Gin. The Machine was made to increase the cleansing of Cotton seeds. Before the Cotton Gin was made a person could only clean 1 pound of cotton a day. After the Cotton Gin was made a person could clean around 50 pounds of cotton a day. The Cotton Gin shaped Georgia's Economy by Introducing Railroads, Increasing The Slave Population and Jobs.

The Cotton Gin Caused the Slave Population to increase. In Document C it shows that as the amount of cotton increased did the slaves as well. In the note it says "At this time, it took one person a full day of work to separate the seed from a pound of cotton fiber. The cotton gin, however, enabled a person to "clean" …show more content…

In Document E it states "Railroads first came to Georgia in the 1830's. Shipping cotton by rail was cheaper and faster than mules and wagons. By 1860, Georgia had 1,200 miles of track, more than any other southern state." With so much cotton having to be exported the people wanted faster transportation and didn't want to pay for transportation so they looked into railroads and found that they exported cotton faster and was cheaper than the mules and wagons.

The cotton caused more jobs to need more workers or caused jobs to be created.In document B it states "Whether it was trade, manufacturing, or transportation, much of Georgia's economic activity was directly or indirectly driven by cotton." "Local cotton fed the cotton mills that were beginning to spring up in the state. Workers at train depots and river docks loaded cotton. Carpenters and masons built cotton warehouses. Merchants and manufacturers sold their goods to townspeople and to the plantations. Cotton brokers...provided planters with access to the textile mills of the North and Europe." The cotton gin cause more cotton to be created so jobs like textile workers, the workers at river docks and train depots,carpenters,masons,merchants,manufacturers, and cotton brokers were created, or the workers increased in numbers to help cotton go around, or to turn it into

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Invented by Eli WHitney in 1793, because of the cotton gin it reduced the amount of time and cost of separating the cotton seeds from white fiber. Due to the cotton gin, cotton farming became much more profitable in the South. Because of the cotton gin, the demand of the cotton grew and increased slavery. There was economic consequences due to the cotton gin and the increase of the cotton

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The use of the cotton gin had a major impact on slavery by expanding the use and population of slaves. “This machine revolutionized the process of separating cotton from its seed, making it dramatically faster and less expensive to turn picked cotton into usable cotton for textiles” the author said. Harvesting the cotton fields was intense work and the more cotton that was being produced lead to more fields causing more slaves to be needed to work those fields. All the large cotton plantations that the south maintained, by 1850 the slave population increased tremendously. “Southern wealth had become reliant on this one crop and thus was completely dependent on slave-labor.”

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To begin with, the cotton gin was increasing Georgia’s economy through trade, manufacturing, and transportation. For example, document B stated, “Whether it was trade, manufacturing, or transportation, much of Georgia’s economic activity was directly or indirectly driven by cotton.” Meaning Georgia’s economic growth was from one factor. In addition, document B also stated, “They buy cotton, sell cotton, think cotton, eat cotton, drink cotton, and dream cotton....” ” the great staple, sum, and substance...”

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In 1793 man named Eli Whitney's created an invention this machine was able to reduce the time it took to separate seeds from the cotton this creation was called the cotton gin. The invention help cotton become very profitable. It was a major economic difference between the north and south region. Down in the south the economy started only worrying about the cotton which means they depended on slavery but up North they worried more on their industries to help more with their work. Up north their industries were buying raw cotton and putting it into finished goods.

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The invention of the cotton gin created a market for cotton that the planters could hardly supply without cheap labor. Almost every available acre was brought under cotton culture as the small farmers were driven into the West. The demand for slaves to work the fields was enormous. This led to the development of the plantation system of the Far South and Southwest, where masters were near constantly extending their holdings of lands and slaves. Efforts to form new slave states were common, most prominent of these efforts was that to annex Texas.

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It revolutionized the cotton industry by making it more profitable. A machine was now used to remove seeds from cotton rather than having to remove them by hand. This allowed more cotton to be processed quicker which made production of cotton more efficient for farmers. Prior to the invention of the cotton gin, slavery was actually dying out in the southern United States due to how labor intensive the removal of seeds from cotton had become.

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The "King Cotton" forever changed the Southern Economy and Society with production change, the movement of slavery, and slavery itself. Eli Whitney invented the machine known as the Cotton Gin. The Cotton Gin uses a spiked cylinder to remove seeds from cotton fibers. Before this introduction, people used to remove seeds by hand, which was very time-consuming compared to the Cotton Gin. With the Cotton Gin, cotton was much more profitable.

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With the cotton gin, the farmers could separate cotton faster, so they could grow more cotton. To grow more cotton, more slaves would be need to plant and harvest it. Also, the plantation owners could afford more slaves because their was more cotton that brought it more money. The plantation owners would repeat this cycle as they got more money. They could also borrow money from the banks to buy more land, or slaves.

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Prior to the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, slaves had to hand pick over one hundred pounds of cotton per day. New technology, ways of transportation, and innovations in markets had a positive major effect on the United States from 1793 to 1850. New technology in the U.S. allowed the states to produce goods more efficiently. In 1793, American inventor Eli Whitney created the cotton gin, which allowed slaves in the South to easily separate cotton fiber from the seeds. The economic impact of Whitney’s gin was vast because it enabled slaves to produce over two hundred pounds of cotton per day.

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It enabled productivity to increase significantly, more specifically the cotton gin would generate up to fifty pounds of cleaned cotton daily from one pound daily. An important contribution to produce the cotton gin consisted of the closely time-related period of the removal of the native peoples of the southern lands (Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Northern Louisiana.) When this act occurred, the land that was previously occupied by the Native Indians presented availability for white men with money and dreams such as developing or producing more cotton gins. Other acts and features (negatives and positives) of the cotton gin are; it revolutionized cotton production, was profitable for the non-wealthy to become wealthy, it fostered associated expansion of racial slavery throughout the region, shaped the nation’s economy, social and political development, lower status people were forced into slaving these companies or moving to cities to be employed in other, typically dangerous jobs

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Slave labor was much needed in most of american south for agricultural needs. Before the cotton gin was created, rice and tobacco were the main crops in the region. Historians argued that if the cotton gin had not been made to make large profit off of the cotton, the industry would have fallen along with the need of slave laborers. Cotton was the most profitable crop which made it the first choice of agricultural lands to move westward with the americas. Expanding the cotton gin westward put a heavy burden on African slave laborers who were subjugated in the expanding agricultural regions to make, and operate cotton gins.

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The cotton fields were not going to produce by themselves. Cotton was the main export of the South. Cotton was the basis of the economy. After the invention of the cotton gin, cotton production skyrocketed allowing a faster turnover time for processing. Because of a faster processing time, more cotton could be grown which would only boost the South’s economy even more.

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