Go to this link, read about the history of the cotton gin, and answer the following questions.
1. What country started to grow cotton 2,000 years ago?
2. Before the cotton gin, how did people get the seeds out of cotton?
3. What century did people start to grow cotton in North America? (examples - 1300s, 1400s, 800s, etc)?
4. What kind of cotton was grown on the Atlantic Coast?
5. Who invented a cotton gin that actually worked well?
6. The new cotton gin had _______ teeth that caught cotton fibers, and a system of _______ to pull harder.
7. After the cotton gin was invented, people started to wear more cotton instead of ______.
