He influenced the growth of slaves in the south because it caused people to see cotton as a very profitable crop and people bought land which in term increased slavery due to the owner needing to harvest this great thing called cotton.
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The Cotton Gin
it was the cotten gin
the turnpike was the invention that made the growth of railroads possible
Both. It died out in the North, because it did not fit the factory system. It would have died out in the South, but the invention of the cotton-gin enabled the growth of huge plantations that depended on slave-labour.
The issue of expansion of slavery was its expansion and growth into Western territories.