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Why idd the cotton gin lead to more slavery?
Growing cotton became more profitable, and slaves were needed to grow the cotton. Apex ;)
How did king cotton spread slavery?
King Cotton was a phrase used by the South that meant the cotton industry would make the Confederacy a wealthy power and was so essential to Europe it would cause Great Britain and France to support the Confederacy against the US North. Slavery had spread widely in the South before the coining of the term King Cotton. It spread because the economy of the South was based on growing cotton for the world and growing cotton is labor intensive (requires many workers). Thus slaves were required to support the crops.
What was it about growing cotton that made slavery useful?
It took a lot of hand labor, and it had never been automated. Eli Whitney's "cotton gin" was the first step in introducing machine labor to replace human labor.
What is the relationship between slavery and cotton production?
Cotton production could not have been done profitably without slavery.
What invention increased the spread of slavery in the south?
The Cotton Gin created by Eli Whitney caused the spread of slavery.
