USA HISTORY

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: -Interchangeable parts were then incorporated into Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin. The cotton gin cleaned cotton faster and more effectively than by cleaning cotton by hand. The cotton gin increased cotton manufacturing and allowed for the crop to become profitable for southern farmers.

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: -The cotton gin dramatically reduced the amount of time and labor required to clean cotton of its seeds. It also allowed different types of cotton to be grown (harder to clean varieties of cotton had not been grown) this expanded the geographic areas in which cotton could be grown (into many different Southern states).