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Why was cotton a cash crop?

Updated: 8/22/2023
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12y ago

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okay so i need to do a history page and i need to know why a cotton crop is important and i think that it is a big money making crop and is use to make clothes!! (: well f anyone has a better answer please answer or comment please!! ( thank you)

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13y ago

Well here's the deffinition first

cotton gin- a simple machine that quickly and efficiently enabled one worker, usually a slave, to clean cotton as fast as 50 people

if the deffinition doesn't answer it, YOU GOTTA BE JOKEING

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11y ago

cotton sold for a fairly substantial amount of money, it supplied textile industries with raw material and it also employs many people in rural & urban areas

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12y ago

It brought in a lot of money.

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