When Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, slavery in the United States was in a large decline, do to the inherent unprofitable nature of the cotton/plantation/slave economy in â¦ the southern states.
Jasper is a cryptocrystalline variety of the mineral Quartz (SiO 2). Quartz is the most abundant single mineral on earth. It makes up about 12% of the earth's crust, occurring in a wide variety of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks.
Dictionaries - Smith's Bible Dictionary - Jasper, Jasper, [N] [E] a precious stone frequently noticed in Scripture. It was the last of the twelve inserted in the high priests breastplate, ( Exodus 28:20 ; 39:13 ) and the first of the twelve used in the foundations of the new Jerusalem.