Possibly because they wanted credit in the eyes of the colonists
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C. He was suffering from Alzheimer's Disease.
In 1793, Eli Whitney invented a simple machine that influenced the history of the United States. He invented a cotton gin that was popular in the South. The South became the cotton producing part of the country because Whitney's cotton gin was able to successfully pull out the seeds from the cotton bolls.
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