THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION FACTORY SYSTEM AND MARKET REVOLUTION
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Cotton was made faster.
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Cotton became the most important cash crop in the United States.
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It could clean more cotton in minutes than a whole group of workers could clean in a day.
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all of the above
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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 cotton gin made picking the sticky seeds out of the cotton boll by hand obsolete. Cotton had always been easy to grow but was so hard to clean that it wasn’t a desirable option. After the cotton gin became available, cotton became the top cash crop in the South.
Detailed explanation-3: -The cotton gin allowed short thread varieties of cotton to be profitably grown throughout the south. This increase in cotton production lead to the expression that cotton is king. The southern plantation owners became rich. The economy of the south became depended on cotton.