Question

How did the cotton gin impact the growth and harvesting of cotton? It planted cotton seeds in neat rows for cultivation. It picked cotton without damaging the cotton plants. It separated the seeds from the cotton plant quickly. It packed cotton fiber into bales for shipment to mills.

Answer 1

The cotton gin was known to pick the seeds quickly from the cotton plant. The machine had many parts to press away and pick through the seeds to clean the cotton.

Answer 2

The correct answer is the following: option C. The cotton gin helped impact the growth and harvesting of cotton, by separating the seeds from the cotton plants. Invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney in the United States, the cotton gin was a machine created to clean the cotton from its seeds. Its designed came as a result of the increase of the demand for American cotton. By using the cotton gin, producers were accelerating the harvesting of cotton, as separating the seeds from the plan manually was an activity that took too much time.