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Chapter 7 The Cotton Gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793. The machine cleaned the seeds from the cotton, which saved time and money for the farmers. With the invention of the cotton gin, cotton became a cash crop because cotton was in high demand in England and growing in demand in the North. Many plantation owners and wealthy people in the south started buying up large amounts of land and planting cotton. With the high demand of cotton and the desire for a large profit, plantation owners were in need of slaves.

Image: Ellsworth D. Foster ed. The American Educator (vol. 2)(Chicago, IL: Ralph Durham Company, 1921) 

Danzer, Gerald A. The Americans. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Print