Question

How did the cotton gin impact the economy and society of Georgia?

It contributed to an increase in cotton production and an increase in slavery.

It contributed to an increase in cotton production and a decrease in slavery.

It contributed to the great recession of 1804

It contributed to a decrease in slavery and an increase in tobacco production.

Answer 1

It is a it cointribitued to an increase in slavery and cotton since the cotton gin could make 1 man do the work a 100 many southern bought cotton gins and they got many many slaves and by the late 1800s they were producing most of the worlds cotton

Answer 2

It contributed to an increase in cotton production and an increase in slavery.

Step-by-step explanation:

Around 1785, planters along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia began importing high-quality cotton from the West Indies and learned to successfully cultivate the crop that made Caribbean planters, merchants, and slave traders rich. With the advent of the gin, cotton harvesting with slave labor became extremely profitable for plantation owners.