Question
How did the cotton gin, a mechanized tool, help to support the institution of slavery?
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Choose 1 answer:
(Choice A) Operating a cotton gin required at least four people, requiring plantation owners to purchase more slaves.
A
Operating a cotton gin required at least four people, requiring plantation owners to purchase more slaves.
(Choice B) The cotton gin didn’t support the institution of slavery; it made growing cotton so efficient that many plantation owners decided to manumit their slaves.
B
The cotton gin didn’t support the institution of slavery; it made growing cotton so efficient that many plantation owners decided to manumit their slaves.
(Choice C) It made cotton production more efficient, increasing output and making slave-labor plantations more profitable.
C
It made cotton production more efficient, increasing output and making slave-labor plantations more profitable.
Choose 1 answer:
Choose 1 answer:
(Choice A) Operating a cotton gin required at least four people, requiring plantation owners to purchase more slaves.
A
Operating a cotton gin required at least four people, requiring plantation owners to purchase more slaves.
(Choice B) The cotton gin didn’t support the institution of slavery; it made growing cotton so efficient that many plantation owners decided to manumit their slaves.
B
The cotton gin didn’t support the institution of slavery; it made growing cotton so efficient that many plantation owners decided to manumit their slaves.
(Choice C) It made cotton production more efficient, increasing output and making slave-labor plantations more profitable.
C
It made cotton production more efficient, increasing output and making slave-labor plantations more profitable.
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(Choice C) It made cotton production more efficient, increasing output and making slave-labor plantations more profitable.
The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 allowed for the rapid processing of cotton, which significantly boosted cotton production and, in turn, increased the demand for slave labor on plantations. This contributed to the entrenchment and expansion of slavery in the southern United States.
(Choice C) It made cotton production more efficient, increasing output and making slave-labor plantations more profitable.
The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 allowed for the rapid processing of cotton, which significantly boosted cotton production and, in turn, increased the demand for slave labor on plantations. This contributed to the entrenchment and expansion of slavery in the southern United States.