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Agriculture, cotton production, etc.
From my familiarity with the cotton production in the Southern US, I would say it was Egypt.
The invention of the cotton gin- a machine to remove the seeds from raw cotton. It reduced the cost of producing cotton, sped up production greatly, and increased the farming of cotton.
It could be grown, picked, and sold. After the cotton gin was invented the production of cotton grew and England the main buyer of southern cotton.
The Southern Colonies' economy relied heavily on slave work and agriculture, typically the production of cotton.
It was especially important for the southern US states and basically the reason for the Civil War. The southern States' economy almost totally depended on their cotton production and export. The southern USA was the #1 provider of cotton to the world, and that level of production and the need to keep prices competitive made slave labor necessary. During the Civil War cotton exports dwindled to almost nothing, and after the war the Southern States found that India and Egypt had taken over the cotton market. The loss of the cotton income made the southern States the poorest of the US, a situation that would endure until the economic boom that was WW 2.
The invention of the cotton gin increased the production of cotton making. The cotton gin made it possible to card 40 or more bales of cotton each day instead of just one. This invention is credited to Eli Whitney.
The phrase "cotton is king" refers to the significance of cotton production in the economy of the southern United States before the Civil War. Cotton was a major cash crop that drove the region's economy and played a central role in shaping Southern society and politics. The phrase emphasized the economic and social power that cotton production held in the antebellum South.
As of the latest data, the two states with the least amount of cotton production are typically Alaska and Hawaii. These states have minimal cotton farming due to their climates, which are not conducive to the growth of this crop. Most cotton production in the U.S. is concentrated in southern states such as Texas, Georgia, and Arkansas.
production of cotton is producing cotton