tobacco‚ cotton‚ corn‚ potatoes‚ sweet potatoes and livestock and sugar. Cotton was one of the most important resources both to the Americans and the Europeans. Cotton grows in climates that are warm and have long sunny periods so it was mainly grown in Asian countries like Uzbekistan‚ Pakistan and Turkey. But since the Ottomans (modern day Turkey and had borders with the other countries with cotton) did not want to trade with the Europeans‚ the people of Europe wanted there own cotton fields
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......... 7 2.2 Why cotton fibers & reactive dyes been used…...............................................7 2.3 Why time is necessary for dyeing cotton fabric with reactive dye....................7 2.4 Effect of time for dyeing cotton fabric with reactive dye………………..……7 2.5 What is organic cotton and how is it grown……………………………….......8 2.6 Why does the industry want to use organic cotton……………….……....……8 2.7 Characteristics of cotton……………………………………………...…….….8
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and the Cotton Gin Eli Whitney : Eli Whitney was the inventor of the cotton gin and a pioneer in the mass production of cotton. Whitney was born in Westboro ‚ Massachusetts.‚ on Dec. 8‚ 1765‚ and died on Jan. 8‚ 1825. He graduated from Yale College in 1792. By April 1793‚ Whitney had designed and constructed the cotton gin‚ a machine that automated the separation of cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber. Eli Whitney’s machine could produce up to 23 kg (50 lb) of cleaned cotton daily
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Cotton Gin’s Contribution Eli Whitney was born in Westboro‚ Massachusetts on December 8‚ 1765. As a young boy he enjoyed taking things apart and then putting them back together. When he was young‚ he worked in a plantation in Georgia‚ tutoring children. He noticed slaves had trouble taking the seeds out of the cotton boll. He then had an idea for a device that could help out both slaves and plantation owners. The invention of the cotton gin‚ by Eli‚ had many big impacts in the south‚ on slavery
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DBQ Mechanization of the Cotton Industry in Japan and India During the period between the 1880’s and 1930’s both Japan and India showed great increases in the use of machines to produce cotton and yarn products. While demand for these products increased‚ demand for workers also increased. Both countries recruited these laborers in similar fashions. Major differences between Japan and India during this time period were gender differences in workers and their working conditions. Documents 1‚ 2
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DBQ Essay – Mechanization of Cotton Industries In Japan and India‚ the mechanization of the Cotton Industries between 1880 and 1930 had many similarities and differences. From their workers‚ to the increase in production over the years‚ to the way the conditions of the factory were and how women were treated in the factories. As for the workers from both Japan and India‚ they were treated fairly different. They worked twelve to fourteen hours days with no breaks pushing a pedal
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invented a cotton gin that was popular in the South. The South became the cotton producing part of the country because Whitney’s cotton gin was able to successfully pull out the seeds from the cotton bolls. The cotton gin was a very simple invention. First‚ the cotton bolls were put into the top of the machine. Next‚ you turn the handle‚ which turns the cotton through the wire teeth that combs out the seeds. Then the cotton is pulled out of the wire teeth and out of the cotton gin. Farmers were
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people is Eli Whitney. Eli Whitney is most known for his creation of the cotton gin‚ which was revolutionary during the civil war because it heavily changed how the South was able to farm and sell cotton‚ which in turn changed their economy and gave the South the advantage of a prosperous cotton industry which was far more advanced than the North’s method of cotton picking. Since cotton picking was mostly a slave job‚ the cotton gin affected slavery greatly. Eli Whitney was born in Westborough‚ Massachusetts
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Due to the economic expansion there was greater wealth‚ which had some benefits for most elements of society except for the Indian tribes. This is thought to be provoked by increasing industrialization‚ such as Eli Whitney’s invention‚ the Cotton Gin. This was a time there was so many change and invention in transportation‚ communication and technology in the United States and all this innovations never changed during the British rule but was actually under developments during that era. Many
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Case Study 3 - States and Industrial support: Cotton Candy for Texas Farmers Student Name: Learning Institution: a) Reason why the US cotton industry has remained successful for so long The US cotton industry receives government support mainly in the form of subsidies that protect them from adversities such as price instabilities. Cotton farmers are also assisted by the US government to purchase modern equipment (Sitkin & Bowen‚ 2010). This leads to
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