Bowling Green Plantation, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, 1795. Eli Whitney has planted the seed of the American cotton industry's industrial revolution by engineering the cotton gin! Which would ...

UNION COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV/Gray News) - A North Carolina mother says her middle school student was asked to pick cotton ... cotton gin and its impact during the Industrial Revolution.

The assignment this week was reportedly intended to teach seventh-grade social studies students at Porter Ridge Middle School about the 18th-century cotton gin and its impact during the Industrial ...