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a graph is shown with the words "cotton production, 1800-1840"
The overall trend from 1800 to 1840 resulted from which of the following?

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new economic policies stemming from a laissez-faire philosophy

new agricultural inventions like the Cotton Gin

new cotton state unions like the Grange

new tariffs that supported American-produced goods over foreign goods
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New agricultural inventions like the Cotton Gin.

The cotton gin (1793) and related improvements made processing short‑staple cotton profitable, driving the large rise in cotton production between 1800 and 1840. The Grange came much later, and tariffs or laissez‑faire policy are not the primary cause of that production boom.