On 14 March, 1784 Eli Whitney had introduced a technology, that had changed the world of cotton industry from now on and forever. According to the Patent for cotton gin, he received, the machine illustrated was designed to set apart cotton fiber and the seed (Patent for Cotton Gin, 1784). Technology, that Whitney had invented, could make cotton industry of America as profitable as never before due to the fact that cotton gin could produce nearly fifty pounds of cleaned cotton per day. And that is what it did. After 1800 yeild of raw cotton doubled each decade making America the worlds' biggest supplier of cotton.
The fact that America has become a leader in supplying cotton was possible, because according to Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803) Robert Livingston and James Monroe, by signing the transaction with France on April 30, 1803, expanded the territory of the United States westward with purchased amount of square miles reaching 828,000. The real estate deal of the millenium was concluded on terms of four cents per an acre and has added a territory of Louisiana, which in total could be summed to the territory of Great Britain, Portugal, Italy, France, Spain and Germany combined (Louisiana Purchase Treaty, 1803).
Kleihege in his article “The Development of the Cotton Industry in the United States up to 1840” speaks about the way that cotton seed has made from the very beginning, when it appeared on the territory of the America in 1609 till 1840, when America has become worlds’ leading exporter of raw cotton material. The author argues that cotton and cotton industry have been a great influence for Americas’ economy and agricultural sector in particular by saying “cotton culture was extended into the source of the greatest profits in agriculture which the American people had ever enjoyed” (Kleihege, 1911).
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