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slaves were used on plantations to grow and pick the cotton

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Why did the cotton trade lead to a rise in slavery?

growing cotton required many workerrs


What major crops were linked to the slavery system during the American Civil War?

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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 ;)


What happend to slavery as state grow more cotton?

The more the State in America was growing cotton the more they were in need of slaves and hence the slavery trade got flourished.


How were England cotton indusrt an American's cotton growes linked?

Very closely before the war. But the English cotton workers were not prepared to back a war in support of slavery - and sacrificed some earnings on account of their principles.


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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.


Why did Eli Whitney Cotton gin lead to the spread of slavery into more of the south?

The cotton gin made cotton production more profitable, as long as the slave labor remained. More planters pursued larger profits under the plantation system. It made the cotton trade so profitable that Southern leaders were strongly motivated to preserve slavery and extend it, if possible. Growing cotton became more profitable, growers expanded crop acreage, and more slaves were needed to grow the cotton.


How did slavery get planted in North America?

Slavery took off in the North American colonies because the land needed to be cultivated for large crops. In the south the soil was perfect for growing cotton and cotton was in high demand throughout the western hemisphere. So in turn, large amounts of workers were needed to pick cotton.


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Why was most of the slavery in the south?

Because growing food, cotton, etc was (and still is) a lot easier to grow in the south, where the growing season is longer and the temperatures are higher throughout the winter. Farming, without machinery, was a lot harder, and many of the people went with slavery as, what they believed, was the best option. This is likely also why they stuck with slavery for as long as they did.


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.