Wednesday 1/21 8th Grade DOL(8.27A)

The image shows a student's notes.

Determine which answer choice best completes the set of notes.

Move the correct answer to the box.

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Production became more efficient

Increased pay for workers

Improved transcontinental trade

caused rural populations to grow

Determine the effect of each of the technological and scientific innovations. 

• Cotton Gin

• allowed for identical goods to be made in mass quantities and easily replaced

• Factory System

• Created a higher demand for cotton

• Interchangeable Parts

• Created a space for workers to do specialized jobs in one central location

This is an excerpt from Eli Whitney's request to renew the Cotton Gin patent.

Which statement BEST showcases the impact of the efficiency of the cotton gin on agriculture?

Select the correct statement.

• the greatest part of the cotton raised in the United States has been and must of necessity continue to be the Green Seed

• before the inventions of your memorialist, the value of this species of cotton, after it was cleaned, was not equal to the expense of cleaning it -

• a labor-saving machine it is an invention which enables one man to perform in a given time that which would require a thousand men without its aid

• it furnishes to the whole family of mankind the means of procuring the article of cotton