June 1, 1972 Kentucky joined the United States
The name was taken from a Greek <span>mathematician named </span><span>Pythagoras. He was trying to provide proof of the theorem. </span>
When voting rights frist started only wealthy land owners were allowed to vote which was an idea that was taken from the Greek Democracy and all members of the Greeek Assembly were elected their positions by citizens that they represented and were paid for their work in the public office just like the way the U.S. elects their officials. The U.S. also took the 3 branches of government from the Greek Democracy and the citizens right to exercise political power. The Constitution was an idea taken from the Roman Republic. The Roman Republic had a list of rules called the Twelve Tables (list of rules/Roman legal system) and both the Roman & U.S. Senate's deal with foreign policies.
But shortly after arriving, he found that planters throughout the South—including his new employer—weren't doing too hot financially.
Tobacco, the cash crop that had sustained the Southern economy for over a century, had fallen sharply in value.
The South's other exports, like rice, corn, wheat, and indigo, weren't profitable enough to cover the steep costs of land, supplies, and slave labor.
Some plantations attempted to grow cotton, which Europe and the textile mills in the North were increasingly demanding. But besides a few isolated regions, only the green seed variety thrived, and cotton required a full day of manual labor to separate a handful of the soft lint from several pounds of tiny, coarse seeds. The price of slave labor far exceeded any money that could be made cultivating the troublesome product.
Being the Ivy League grad he was, Whitney studied the meticulous work of the few Savannah slaves who cleaned green seed cotton. Then he developed a mechanical device that could replicate the movement of their fingers.
His invention, the cotton gin, was a simple contraption featuring a series of rotating cylinders fitted with wires and brushes that rapidly captured the lint and discarded the seeds. In a single hour, Whitney's machine accomplished more than a team of laborers completed in a full day. Within just one decade the new device had revolutionized cotton production throughout the South.
