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by roughly how much did the amount of cotton produced annually in the United States increase between 1800 and 1860

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American cotton production soared from 156,000 bales in 1800 to more than 4,000,000 bales in 1860 (a bale is a compressed bundle of cotton weighing between 400 and 500 pounds)

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