December 4, 2009

December 4, 2009 A child needs a transplant. The

insurance company denies the claim, and the child dies. Is the insurance company guilty of a crime? They denied the claim because there was no evidence the transplant would save the child's life. Are they still guilty?

Homework: Stay

safe

Stay

sane Stay out of trouble!

Eli Whitney  December

8, 1765 – January 8, 1825  Inventor  Teacher  Invented manufacturing using interchangeable parts  Invents the Cotton Gin

Cotton Gin  Gin

= engine  Something similar was used as early as the 5th century CE/AD  In 1794, Whitney came up with a kind of ‘Gin’ that cleaned the seeds out of cotton

Textile Mills  In

1770, the powered loom was invented in England, resulting in a demand for cotton  The problem: getting the seeds out of the cotton

Cotton  Has

been grown for thousands of years  Is a natural fiber  Grows around the seeds of the cotton plant  Needs the seeds taken out to be made into cloth

Cleaning Cotton  Picking

the seeds out of the cotton bole by hand  1 person could produce 1 pound of clean cotton per day  Labor intensive

Effects of the Cotton Gin  Using

the Gin, one person could clean 50 pounds of cotton a day  This makes cotton VERY profitable

Effects of the Cotton Gin  Cleaning

cotton became easier, so more cotton was grown  Cotton still needed to be picked by hand  Slaves were needed to tend the cotton  Slavery explodes

Exit Ticket Questions:  #1:

What is cotton?  #2: What did the cotton gin do? (EC: what did gin stand for?)  #3: How many pounds of cotton could someone clean with and without the gin?