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What two developments transformed georgia’s agricultural industry in the early-to-mid 1800s?.

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After the American Revolution, the new cotton crop and Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in 1793, further caused Georgia's economy to flourish. Georgia earned her nickname “The Empire State” during the economic boom of the 1840s.
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