What was the political importance of the cotton gin?
March 21st, 2009
Jes asked:
Political importance of the south and the south and the south and the significance politically.
The significance politically.
Political importance of the south and the south and the south and the significance politically.
The significance politically.
Tags: Cash Crop, Cotton Gin
2 Responses to “What was the political importance of the cotton gin?”
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
March 24th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
It was important because it made slavery much more economically viable. By reinforcing the slave based economy of the South it played a role in maintaining the separateness of the South as a region and thus ultimately in the South leaving the Union and precipitating the Civil War.
March 24th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
cotton gin
machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds, invented in the United States by Eli Whitney in 1793. The cotton gin is an example of an invention directly called forth by an immediate demand; the mechanization of spinning in England had created a greatly expanded market for American cotton, whose production was inhibited by the slowness of manual removal of the seeds from the raw fibre.