The cotton-gin.
It vastly expanded the production and export of cotton, and made slavery seem like an essential element in American prosperity.
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The Cotton Gin created by Eli Whitney caused the spread of slavery.
Slavery in the southern colonies increased after the invention of the cotton gin. This invention made plantation agriculture extremely lucrative; slavery was abolished in 1865.
Eli Whitney was likely the inventor who solidified the practice of slavery in the South. His invention of the cotton gin made cotton monstrously profitable.
Cotton gin. Cotton gin made cotton production more profitable.
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Because of the invention of the cotton gin, slavery was less necassary because of the quick speed of the machine. It separated the cotton from the seeds.
Both. It died out in the North, because it did not fit the factory system. It would have died out in the South, but the invention of the cotton-gin enabled the growth of huge plantations that depended on slave-labour.