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 ______.
16 comments:
1. New York
2. by chewing it
3. Jello
4. 5
1.India
2.Picking it by hand.
3.In the 1600 (AD)
4.Long-staple cotton,
5.Eli Whintey
6.steel teeth, pullys to pull harder
7.Linen
1.India
2.By picking it by hand
3.1600 AD
4.Staple cotton
5.Eli Whitney
6.Steel teeth,that are also called pullys
7.Linen
1.India
2.by picking out
3.500 BC
4. long-staple
5.Eli Whitneys
6.steel
7.linen
1.India
2.They just picked the cotton seeds out by hand.
3.1600s
4.They could grow long-staple cotton with long fibers.
5.Eli Whitney
6.steel and pulley
7.linen
1.India
2.hand
3.1600's AD
4.short-staple
5.Eli Whitney
6.steel and pulleys
7.linen
1.india
2.by hand
3.500 Bc
4.long-staple
5.Eli Witney
6.steel-pulleys
7.linen
1.India
2.by hand
3.in 1600
4.staple cotton
5.Eli witney
6.steel pully
7.linen
1.indin...
2.pick it out with your hands
3.the 1600
4.short staple cotten
5.eli whitney
6.steel pullys
7.linen
1.the country was Inda
2.by hand
3.In the 1,600
4.short staple cotten
5.Eli Whitney
6.steel and pulleys
7.linen
1.Idia
2.By hand
3.1700s
4.They can grow long staple and long fibers
1.India
2.By hand
3.1600's
4.churka churka
5.Eli Whitney
6.steel and pulleys
7.Linen
1.India
2.by hand
3.1600
4.long staple
5.Eli Whitney
6.steel pulleys
7.linen
1.India.
2.Picking it by hand.
3.In the 1600s AD.
4.Long-staple cotton.
5.Eli Whitney
6.Steall teeth,Pulleys
7.Linen
1.Indian
2.picked the seeds out by hand
3.16oo's
4.grow long -staple cotton, with long fibers tha would work in the lndian cotton churka
5.Eli Whitney
6.steel teeth ,pulleys
7.line
1. India
2. by hand
3. 1600s
4. long-staple
5. Eli Whitney
6. steel pulleys
7. linen
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