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What was the main effect of Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin?

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Cotton became the South's main crop

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Answer:While it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton. In fact, the opposite occurred. Cotton growing became so profitable for the planters that it greatly increased their demand for both land and slave labor

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