USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The most significant effect of the cotton gin, however, was the growth of slavery. While it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for enslaved labor to grow and pick the cotton.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cotton gin quickly transformed agriculture in Deep South. AND increased the reliance of southern society on slavery and plantation system. The yield of raw cotton nearly doubled each decade after 1800. Encouraged westward expansion into potential cotton-producing areas.

Detailed explanation-3: -The gin improved the separation of the seeds and fibers but the cotton still needed to be picked by hand. The demand for cotton roughly doubled each decade following Whitney’s invention. So cotton became a very profitable crop that also demanded a growing slave-labor force to harvest it.

Detailed explanation-4: -After the cotton gin became available, cotton became the top cash crop in the South. Since the ease of producing cotton increased supply, the prices lowered and demand increased. Cotton manufacturing in the North increased and so did the demand for cotton.

Detailed explanation-5: -The cotton gin made cotton tremendously profitable, which encouraged westward migration to new areas of the US South to grow more cotton. The number of enslaved people rose with the increase in cotton production, from 700, 000 in 1790 to over three million by 1850.