MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Changed the type of jobs people had, how much more factories could produce, people and goods could travel faster, and expanded the abilities of the US. Also had a negative affect like with the Cotton Gin and the increase in slave labor.
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Gave many people jobs by becoming the North’s biggest business in the 1840s and improved the lives of many people
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Cotton wasn’t shipped on Amazon Anymore.
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Made cotton more profitable resulting in farmers making bigger plantations and increasing the need for slave labor. In the North textile mills produces cloth faster which raised the demand for cotton.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. In fact, the opposite occurred. Cotton growing became so profitable for enslavers that it greatly increased their demand for both land and enslaved labor.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -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.