1 ene 1793 año - Eli Whitney Invents the Cotton Gin

Descripción:

- Eli Whitney invents cotton gin --> King cotton becomes profitable --> cotton boom in South, boom in slavery --> NE textile mills use southern cotton
- Whitney also est. first use of factory assembly
- "American system" : low skill workers use tools and templates to make identical parts, then assemble the product later

LOWELL SYSTEM (NEW ENGLAND)
- Women hired from surrounding countryside
- Owners spread idea that these factories are better than the awful English factories
- Rotating labor means NO UNIONS