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Eli Whitney & The Cotton Gin

By morgansherman

  • Eli Whitney was born

    Eli Whitney was born
    Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts on a farm.
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    Eli Whitney was born--- Eli Whitney died

  • Attends Yale University and studied class on Technology

    He studied concepts and experiments in science and applied them to arts, so in other words it was a technology building classes.

  • First federal census was taken, they count 697,897 slaves.

  • Eli looks for jobs to make money and meets Phineas Miller They work on a plantation together

  • Eli Graduates From Yale

  • Whitney notices the cotton Industry

  • The cotton gin was invented

    The cotton gin was invented

  • Eli Whitney applied for a patent

  • Whitney was granted the Patent for his creation of the cotton gin

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    Unfortunatly it took Eli 10 years to create 10,000 muskets and he wasn't granted money

  • The Government was aware of Eli's talents and asked him to create over 10,000 muskets in 3 years.

  • Whitney's patent was finally granted. He received 50,000 dollars which was only half of their profit due to lawsuits on the debates over the patent.

  • The census now counted 1.2 million slaves

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    Married to Henrietta Edwards

  • Eli gets married

  • Sadly, Eli Whitney died