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Eli Whitney

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Eli Whitney
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	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 7 to 8
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	7.74

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		gunsmith, gins, sieve, unskilled, production, profit, decade, assembly, patent, government, power, plantation, slavery, trade, mass, wealthy
	content words:		Eli Whitney, Industrial Revolution

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Eli Whitney By Mary L. Bushong

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¹     Why should we learn about Eli Whitney? Eli Whitney's inventions, even though they seem simple by today's standards, changed the course of American history.
 
²     Eli was a native of Massachusetts, but after receiving his college degree from Yale at age 27, he traveled south and soon took a job on a plantation. There, he heard about the problems of growing cotton. The main problem was that it was difficult to make a good profit from cotton, because the job of separating the cotton fiber from the seeds was so time consuming. It took a long day's work to separate just one pound of cotton from its seeds.
 
³     He thought about the problem.

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