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 - Easton's Bible Dictionary - Jasper. Jasper [N] [S] (Heb. yashpheh, glittering), a gem of various colours, one of the twelve inserted in the high priest's breast-plate ( Exodus 28:20 ). It is named in the building of the New Jerusalem ( Revelation 21:18 Revelation 21:19 ).