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When Europeans founded colonies in America they relied on cotton to make a living. In the early days, growing and harvesting cotton was a hard job that was done manually by slaves. In 1793 an American, Eli Whitney, invented the cotton gin, a machine that separated seeds from fiber. This new invention allowed farms to produce even more cotton. In the second part of the 20th century people started to produce synthetic fibers, like nylon and acrylic. The importance of cotton fiber began to drop.
The cotton gin greatly reduced the time and labor needed to make cotton fiber ready for sale to textile mills. Explanation: Each cotton boll contains seeds, which must be removed before the cotton fiber can be used to produce thread and then cloth. Prior the the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in the late 18th century, this work was done by hand; it was labor intensive, not to mention tedious; much work was required to prepare even a small amount of cotton for sale. The cotton gin was a machine that could be used by anyone; raw cotton was placed in a hopper, a hand crank furnished power, and the seeds were quickly removed. This invention quickly made cotton production an attractive option for southern planters, and new regions in the South were opened and turned into cotton plantations.