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Creation of the Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin and Southern Expansion
Cotton Diplomacy
"King Cotton" and the Civil War
The Impact of the Cotton Gin
Impact of the Cotton Gin on Slavery
Annotated Bibliography
The Social and Economic Effects of the Cotton Gin: South
Positive impacts
The cotton gin eliminated a lot of wasted time on separating seeds from cotton.
Most of the cotton grown was shipped to Europe and made into cloth.
Clothing became cheaper because of how much cotton was being grown.
Cotton became America's leading cash crop.
Cotton will/can grow on any kind of land, even land with no nutrients.
America was growing three-quarters of the world's supply of cotton.
The North part of America was buying more cotton and building textile mills.
The production of cotton brought America trade with other nations.
Negative impacts
Instead of slavery becoming obsolete, the number of slaves started increasing.
The cotton gin changed society for the worse.
Cotton production started going up, farmers wanted more land and started taking land from the Native Americans.
The South invested in slaves more than transportation.
Almost all of the South was cotton production and barely any transportation like railroads and no factories.
One third of Southerners were slaves.
Larger plantations and the price of slaves and land was increasing that it stunned the growth of the South's cities and industries.
72% of the nation's manufacturing capacity was in the North