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    DBQ The cotton and cloth production in Japan has greatly increased. Japan is hiring more and more workers preferably females workers. The women don’t get paid the first year‚ says the older sister of Aki (Document 3). Most of the entire factory workers were farmers; they went to work in the factories to make more money for their families’ (Document 5). “For the last few decades there has been a rapid decline of hand woven cloth”‚ (Document 6) this just shows you that machines are taking over

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    The cotton gin had many effects. I believe that the cotton gin effected people in a negative and positive way and it also helped pave way for many other important inventions we use today. The cotton gin was a machine that basically made collecting cotton much easier the way the cotton gin worked was cotton was run through a wooden drum embedded with a series of hooks that caught the fibers and dragged them through a mesh. The mesh was too fine to let the seeds through but the hooks pulled the cotton

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    Cotton Industry Through the beginning of evolution of humans one of the most common utilities used were cotton for clothing and other things. As trading became popular through Asia and machines were invented the owners would usually use many workers and get a low wage out of their work just as in Japan and India. The cotton industries throughout Japan and India became a great success in the period 1880s to the 1930s. A similarity of these countries was that they both recruited laborers who worked

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    The cotton industry grew increasingly popular during the 1880s and continued its growth all the way to the 1930s. Two of its major producers were India and Japan‚ and although they both worked in the production of cotton‚ they had various differences. They used the same employees but their production rates were not the same. The living conditions in which the people worked also seemed to have been better in India than Japan. And the percentage of female laborers was much higher in Japan. Documents

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    the Cotton Gin ! ! ! Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin around 1763. At the time he invented the engine Whitney lived with Catherine Greene‚ a widowed plantation owner. While staying with Greene‚ Whitney learned a lot about the production of cotton. He learned it was a tedious‚ time consuming and labor intensive job. Whitney was a graduate of Yale and was talented in the field of mechanics and inventive engineering. Eli’s solution was simple‚ an engine that separated the cotton after

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    It was 1793‚ when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. A cotton gin is a machine that quickly separates cotton fibers from their seeds. This allows for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. Eli Whitney was born on December 8‚ 1765 in Westborough‚ Massachusetts. He died on January 8‚ 1825. When he was a child‚ he loved working in his father’s workshop. He’d take things apart‚ then put them back together again. (For example‚ a clock.) He worked on a Georgian Plantation when he was

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    surprising scale. The cotton business was the focal point of this movement. Before the mechanical developments of the Modern Upset‚ India was the cotton fabricating focus of the world and sent out its materials everywhere throughout the world. Rivalry from imported cotton was a noteworthy reason for disdain for the conventional fleece industry in England. We have records of warmed level headed discussions in Parliament in the 1600s and mid 1700s about how to confine the utilization of cotton. A law went in

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    production. It provides direct employment to over 15 million persons in the mill‚ powerloom and handloom sectors. India is the world’s second largest producer of textiles after China. It is the world’s third largest producer of cotton-after China and the USA-and the second largest cotton consumer after China. The textile industry in India is one of the oldest manufacturing sectors in the country and is currently it’s largest1. The Textile industry occupies an important place in the Economy of the country

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    In The Wonders of the Invisible World‚ Cotton Mather brings his religious views to the table. He was definitely moved by logical thinking‚ and thought others should too. Mathers believed that the colonies were being ridiculous for leaving their safe and comfortable place when faced with adversity. Why leave good land to find another that is not promised or prominent? The leaders were nicknamed “Joshuas” to place a mockery on the Joshua in the Old Testament of the Bible. He claimed Satan was trying

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    the 1930s‚ Japan and India both were beginning to mechanize their cotton industries. Both of these countries had similar recruitment techniques‚ but differed when it came to who the workers were and where they came from‚ and the working conditions they had in the mill. Documents 1‚ 2‚ and 6 all show the increased usage of machines in Japanese and Indian cotton factories. The chart in Document 1 that details the production of cotton yarn and cloth in India shows how India utilized more machines to

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