Cotton...Cotton...Cotton...Cotton...Cotton...Cotton...cotton...
It was 1793 in the midst of the Industrial Revolution that was shaping the ever growing North, but was having little effect on the mainly agricultural South. It was a visit to a plantation where a Yale graduate by the name of Eli Whitney first designed and invented a more efficient way of processing the cotton making the whole process smoother to perform. Result: The economic and social status of the South grew tremendously, and "King Cotton" became the South's number one economic power house. This fed deeper into the tensions between the North and South as slavery grew and the dependency on cotton was even greater than ever. Because of the cotton gin, the South and the United States as a whole, changed drastically and for evermore begin modernizing due to this impactful invention in history.