ore but he chose to. In total he made about $90,000 on the cotton gin. He went on to create interchangeable parts and an assembly line. Once people knew about the cotton gin people started to move to the South and West. People came in flocks to start growing short-staple cotton. This was called the Cotton Kingdom. Eli Whitney made a major contribution to the United States by helping start the Industrial Revolution. People thought the cotton gin would create less of a demand for slavery since there were not as many people needed to clean the cotton. But that was wrong. Because short-stem cotton could be cleaned so easily there wasnt enough cotton to gin. So more slaves were bought to pick the cotton. The South was really happy since they were making more and more money. The North wanted more people to start buying goods from America not from Britain so they created a tariff on British goods so people would almost be forced to buy American made goods. Since there was less demand for Britishs goods, it would seem logical that Britain didnt need as much cotton from the south. The problem was that the South only had two markets that bought cotton from them, the North and Britain. Since Britain didnt need that much cotton at all, the Souths only buyer was the North. So they were depending on the North to buy their goods. The North took advantage of this, since the South had no other way of making a substantial amount of money besides cotton farming. The North decided that they could haggle the price of cotton down low. This made the south very very mad. This and combined with the slave issue eventually led to the Civil War. The invention of the cotton gin helped speed up the growth of the United States, of course with the help of Eli Whitney who helped the United States in many other ways. As a result, cotton became the cheapest and most widely used textile fabric in the world....
