The Cotton Gin helped the slaves pick the seeds out of the cotton>
Cotton
To help make it easier to harvest and use cotton, which was a main staple in that era
In the north, it was mainly industrial, as the land there was not good for farming. The north was also based on transportation, the Railroad, locomotive, and steamboat were invented there. In the south it was mainly agricultural, and cotton was the main crop. A strip of land in the south was called the cotton belt, and mainly cotton was grown there. Cotton was known as a cash crop, and because of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, there was a cotton boom that resulted in cotton being traded to Europe to be manufactured. So does this answer your question?
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Cotton and tobacco
Cotton
Cotton was a main product of the South. When Europeans didn't buy the South's main source of money for the war was cut off.
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Cotton or Indigo
The ability to produce short-staple cotton Virginia, but removing seeds from the cotton bolls was so labor intensive that growing short-staple cotton was only marginally profitable. That situation changed after Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793. With the seed extraction problem solved, short-staple cotton became the South's major industry. Cotton became king.
Yes.Because cotton makes clothes and soliders needed uniforms