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How did the Cotten gin impact Texas?

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The success of the cotton gin led to increased production of short-staple cotton throughout the South. In Texas, Austin offered land bounties to colonists willing to grow cotton and to blacksmiths and carpenters willing to build cotton gins. As early as 1825 primitive gin manufacturing took place near San Augustine.

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