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How did the cotton gin and the spinning jenny help change the making of textiles (cloth) from a cottage industry to a factory-based industry?
They made spinning much more difficult for an individual person to handle--machines were needed.
They provided a way to produce and weave artificial cotton, which was easier to weave.
They provided a way to add color to cotton and other fibers, which increased demand.
They made it possible to produce the thread needed for weaving much more quickly.
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They made it possible to produce the thread needed for weaving much more quickly.
The spinning jenny multiplied how many spindles one person could run, massively increasing yarn output, and the cotton gin rapidly removed seeds from cotton bolls, greatly increasing raw cotton supply — together these increases in speed and scale pushed textile production out of small cottages and into centralized, machine-driven factories.
The spinning jenny multiplied how many spindles one person could run, massively increasing yarn output, and the cotton gin rapidly removed seeds from cotton bolls, greatly increasing raw cotton supply — together these increases in speed and scale pushed textile production out of small cottages and into centralized, machine-driven factories.
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