History and government of the United States, for evening schools . , while ourgeneral wealth has increased from a billion to almost a hundredbillion dollars. This vast increase in wealth has been due inpart to increase in land area and in the numbers of agricultural,industrial, and commercial workers. It has been largely duealso to scientific discoveries and mechanical inventions. Tlie Cotton Gin. — Among the most important of these in-ventions was the cotton gin, which came into use in 1793. Thecotton gin enabled manto accomplish by ma-chinery work that hadbefore been done byhand methods, and
History and government of the United States, for evening schools . , while ourgeneral wealth has increased from a billion to almost a hundredbillion dollars. This vast increase in wealth has been due inpart to increase in land area and in the numbers of agricultural,industrial, and commercial workers. It has been largely duealso to scientific discoveries and mechanical inventions. Tlie Cotton Gin. — Among the most important of these in-ventions was the cotton gin, which came into use in 1793. Thecotton gin enabled manto accomplish by ma-chinery work that hadbefore been done byhand methods, and ledto a number of otherimportant inventions inthe manufacture ofcotton. These cottoninventions, togetherwith the immense in-crease in the numberof slaves and the almost unlimited market in Europe forcotton, brought great wealth to the South. Since the War ofSecession, progress in cotton raising and in manufacture hasbeen very great. Steamships and Railirays. — In 1807 the first successful steam-ship was built. The application of steam to water travel led 83. COTTO-N GlX 84 OUR BUSINESS AFFAIRS m
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