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What crop increased the demand for
slaves in the American South and
West?

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Answer:

With the invention of the cotton gin, cotton became the cash crop of the Deep South, stimulating increased demand for enslaved people from the Upper South to toil the land.

Step-by-step explanation:

cotton gin i think

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