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Are technological improvements always
good?
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One BAD Example…
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Cotton GinEli Whitney - 1793Increased demand for cotton
Textile mills in Europe and in the NorthMUCH faster than by hand
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Is Cotton the “fabric of our lives?”
But what if it cost 100x more?
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Cotton Craziness! By 1850, cotton
prices dropped to 1% of what they cost in 1784
Why? 1860
Cotton = $191 million export
2/3 of U.S. exports
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Major Increase
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Raw Cotton
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http://cottonclassroom.com/videoofcottonbeingcleaned.html
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Under Pressure On their first day,
slaves were often tested
Pick and clean cotton while being watched
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Eli Whitney’s Next Big Thing
1798 - accepted offer from Thomas Jefferson to make rifles for armyWanted 10,000-15,000 rifles in two yearsBut how???
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InstructionsEach paper must have:
BLUE squareBLACK triangleRED circlePURPLE stick figureFolded in halfStacked in a neat pile
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Interchangeable PartsWhitney used interchangeable parts to
create the guns fasterEach person has specific taskTogether they are assembled into a
gunPreviously everything was done
individually, but now it was assembly lines