How did the cotton gin impact America?
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It greatly increased cotton production in the South and cotton manufacturing in the North. The cotton gin increased slave work production, almost by fifty fold! The North was and still is the manufacturing megaplex, so the mills and textile factories were tremendously affected. Last but simply not least was slavery, as the Whites didn't expect the Blacks to sit on their rears and watch them. This had an adverse effect on most states, clearly showing in the end not all inventions are perfect.
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the economic status of the south allowed for industrial speculators to move in and increase the size of industrial manufacturies. Labor was cheap, people needed to eat. Slavery being abolished also meant that the labor force was decreased (whites now had to work for themselves).\n\nThe market went from agraian (many people producing much food) to industrial (few people roducing most of the nations food.) This meant jobs went from agriculture to industry.
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/16801/effects_of_the_american_revolution.html\n\ngood luck!
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cotton gin, machine for separating cotton fibers from the seeds. The charkha, used in India from antiquity, consists of two revolving wooden rollers through which the fibers are drawn, leaving the seeds. A similar gin was early used in the S United States for long-staple cotton. In the modern roller gin, rollers covered with rough leather draw out the fibers, which are cut off by a fixed knife pressed against the rollers. This type of gin cleans only about two bales per day, but it does not snarl or break the fibers. \nThe saw gin, invented by the American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793 and patented in 1794, consisted of a toothed cylinder revolving against a grate that enclosed the seed cotton. The teeth caught the fibers, pulling them from the seeds; the fibers were then removed from the cylinder by a revolving brush. This device, especially suited to short- and medium-staple cotton, has been mechanized and is used in commercial plants that are also called gins, where the fiber is conveyed from farm wagon to baler by air suction. Such plants have one or more gin stands, each with a series of from 70 to 80 circular saws set on a shaft. The fibers, freed from dirt and hulls, are pulled through a grid by the saw teeth to remove the seeds. The fibers are removed from the saw teeth by a revolving brush or by a blast of air (in more modern plants) and are then carried by air blast or suction to a condenser and finally to the baling apparatus.
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It is quite prevalent in the United States.
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Politics control an area. Everything such as slavery, King Cotton, and the lack of industrialization in sourth influnced politics which in turn influenced the relationships. The north and south had become very different areas. If a new tariff or law that helped one area, always hurt the other area. All these were decided in Congress, especially the slave laws.
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The U.S. was one, a newly discovered continent.  It was a grand adventure.  Also, the newly formed government was a grand experiment.  Never before had a government been formed on the theory of democracy in such a large scale.  It afforded freedoms almost unheard of around the world.  Freedoms like, no matter what economic status you came from, you could make yourself better in America.   And, no matter what status you were born to, whether a prince or a pauper, you could succeed in America.  The struggles over racism weren't only over blacks, but included Irish, and Italians, and Asians.  Even with these racial struggles the opportunities afforded every individual were far better than most folks could find in their home countries.
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media used propaganda movies like 'reefer madness' demonize it as well as a fake crime rate published by w.r. hearst (he owned a nation-wide string of 38 newspapers like; Los Angeles Examiner, the Boston American, the Chicago Examiner, the Detroit Times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Washington Times, Washington Herald, the San Francisco Examiner, New York Daily Mirror, Harper's Bazaar, Universal News, International News Service, King Features Syndicate & the magazine Cosmopolitan just to name a few so you can see his influence) about how all mexicans were criminals driven insane by 'the reefer weed'. this led public outrage (sound like todays practices at all?) to 'secure the borders & ban the weed'. \nalso it was one of the biggest cash crops ever. it was farmed for its fibers that was used for rope, paper, and fabric which led the cotton industry to lobby against it. hempseed oil was THE stuff used in lanterns because of its combustability, low toxins, peice & duration.
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it already has had a major effect.  it caused all the hurricanes last summer to be so bad and killed thousands of people in the gulf coast region... i would say that is a major effect on people.
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Hemp represented a threat to the cotton and wood pulp industries.  \n\nHarry J. Anslinger, the guy that was charged with forming the Bureau of Narcotics (now known as the DEA) needed something more than opiates to get his agency going (and advance his career).  He teamed up with William Randolph Hearst, who owned a lot of timber that he sold back to his newspapers.  Hearst wanted to protect his profits, Anslinger wanted to make a name for himself.  Hearst threw his yellow journalism skills into the mix, and it became illegal.\n\nIt stays illegal for 2 reasons -- continued opposition by the industries that would be affected by increased hemp production, and an irrational linkage of marijuana with harder drugs.
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Slaves cost something, not only to buy but to maintain; and some Southern planters thought that conditions had reached a point where a slave's labor no longer paid for his maintenance.Eli Whitney made a cotton gin that  helped the south. \n\nIn the North, by manufacturing the cotton gin, he started a system of manufacture which would permit an unskilled man to turn out a product that would be just as good as one made by a highly trained machinist.
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There's this weed that had poisonous spiky hairs on the thick stem, and if manhandled, spreads it's seeds really fast and the hairs can cause tumors in the hands. Also really hard to pull up and the root can grow more plants. And it's in the U.S.! Wyoming!
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The United States had evolved into a nation where different areas were stronger in different economic systems. The U.S. was also competing in the world - usually against the economic strengths of England and France - as it built up its economy. The North was developing from small farms into an industrial area where factories were producing goods to sell to the world. One of the raw materials used was cotton from the South.\nThe South was growing from an agricultural base. Cotton was the most important crop, and cotton was sold both to the North and to the world.\nThe West was growing into an agricultural base with grains and cattle the source of income.\nA tariff is a tax on imported goods. A low tariff is used to raise money for the government. It just skims a little of the price from an import, and the loss is made up by adding a bit to the sale price. The customer doesn't like this but buys it anyway. \nA high tariff adds much more to the price of an import, perhaps doubling the price. It is used to stop the import of a good, because the customer will not pay that much.\nThe North favored a high tariff against the import of textiles so that its textile producers could sell their goods. It was aimed at European textile manufacturers. But those manufacturers bought a lot of cotton from the South. So, the South was against the high tariff. \nThe West did not particularly like the high tariff because the goods from Northern manufacturers cost more than the goods from European manufactures. \nThe politics encouraged the South to move more people into the West so more states would be on the side of the South in the government and could defeat high tariff laws when they were proposed by a Northern state. \nThis economic and political situation was the fundamental cause of the Civil War.
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It is simple, the democratic party did it. They all were into cotton plantations with much to gain. If labor was lost then their profits would fall. So there you have the story, contraries to history that is written.
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the effects that it caused.
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There are entire books on this subject, so I'm not going to get too detailed.\n\nThe practice of slavery was an issue left up to individual states.  The states in the Southern region chose slavery because their economies were largely agrarian.  They produced raw goods like cotton.  The states in the Northern region were primarily industrial.  They produced finished goods, which meant they had less of a need for slave labor.\n\nWhen the country started spreading to the West, the Southern states assumed the new territories would be able to vote individually on the slavery issue.  The federal government, which tended to sympathize with the more developed Northern states, decided that it should be the one to assign 'slave' or 'non-slave' status as each new state was recognized.  The idea that individual states would no longer have the power to determine their own policies was objectionable to Southern representatives in Congress.  They voted to secede from the Union in order to preserve the rights of individual states.  The federal government desperately wanted to keep the supply states and the manufacturing states together for economic strength.\n\nIt's easy to portray the Southern cause as immoral, but in reality the number of large plantations with large slave populations was minimal.  The majority of Southerners were no more racist than Northerners.  The federal government eventually prevailed through superior firepower, not superior morality.
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The introduction of deadly and debilitating diseases to which they had no immunty from the invading european horde. Add gunpowder, alcohol and tobacco and you have a pretty good idea of the negative impact our forefathers brought to the indigenous people of America. Smallpox infected blankets, passed out deliberately by our wonderfull army, decimated entire tribes and spread rapidly across the nation.