Reference no: EM133456840

Thesis:

The invention of the cotton gin played an important role in farm owners and the progression in southern states by creating advanced textile cloth and an increase in profit.

I. The cotton gin was created to advance the textile of clothing and provide more income for those who are farm owners. Enslaved people made an increase in working on farms and the population of enslavement increased in Southern States. Many of the farm owners hired more slaves to do their work such as growing cotton and farming in general. Due to the increase of income, many of the farm owners needed more resources because the cash crop continued to grow.

A. Thesis: The invention of the cotton gin played an important role in farm owners and the progression in southern states by creating advanced textile cloth and an increase in profit.

B. Roles/Arguments

II. Eli Whitney's Invention

A. Creating the cotton gin machine to help farm owners and the production of textile cloth.

1) He "experienced expansion of the cotton gin"

2) Maintain slavery

B. Faster assembly

1) Easy repair

2) Various devices to help production

C. Effects of the Cotton Gin

1) Encouraged higher incomes

2) Motivated farm owners with production

III. Eli Whitney as a Public Figure

A. Successes and Effects

1) Enabled the rapid separation of seed from cotton fibers

B. Show the importance of why the cotton gin was invented and how it affected those primarily in

South states

C. Struggled with epidemics and delayed supplies

D. The demand for cotton doubled each decade

IV. Eli Whitney as a public figure

A. Implementing everyone and working as a team to meet an end goal

B. Increase demand of cotton in Southern States

C. Profitable crop

1) Whitney became credited as a pioneer of American manufacturing

D. The invention of the cotton gin contributed to enslavement and the civil war

E. Creating cotton helped with making fibers of goods such as clothes and other things we use daily

1) The demand for slaves and production was a significance to those who were prospering with the invention

V. The cotton gin gave farm owners the ability to increase cotton production, an increase in enslavement throughout Southern states, and allowed harvesting and cultivation to expand.

A. Credited with fixing cotton cultivation, helped gain cash crops and institutionalizing slavery.