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Because it enabled the huge growth of the cotton industry, whereby the South became a great cotton empire, able to compete economically with the North, but dependent on slavery.

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Which invention led to an increase in the demand for slaves?

The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 increased demand forh slaves. Cotton was hand picked those days and cotton needed. The transatlantic slave trade reached its peak between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries spurred by the growth of large plantations in North and South America.


What were the differences between the north and the south besides slavery?

North had more factories, the South had more Cotton Plantations.


What explains the birth of slavery in the South?

There had been slavery in both North and South. In the North, it died out because it did not suit the factory system. In the South, it would have died out too, but the sudden growth of the cotton trade (following the invention of the cotton-gin) gave the planters a big incentive to import and breed more slaves to work the plantations.


What was the Brooks Summer affair?

When Charles Sumner (Georgia) beat George Brooks (Massachusetts) on the floor of the U.S. Senate with a silver tipped cane. The fight sparked the swelling animosity between the North and the South.


What was the effect of Eli Whitneys invention of the cotton gin?

When Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, it made it possible to grow short staple cotton throughout the southern part of the United States. Cotton replaced linen as the material to wear in the summer. Since cotton required a long growing season, it became a major crop for the South. Since it was labor intensive, slaves were the preferred source of labor. Since it required so much water, the South was one of the few places on earth where it could be grown in commercial quantities. As a result, slave owners considered slaves necessary. Thus, it maintained the institution of slavery. (It would be around 1900 before a commercially successful cotton picking machine would be created.)

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What invention deepened the the connection between north and south?

The cotton-gin. A simple device for separating the seed from the lint. It enormously speeded the production of short-staple cotton.


How did the invention of the cotton gin ultimately affect the North South relations?

The cotton gin increased production of cotton exponentially in the south. Which increased the economy in the south greatly. The south then began to increase in the number of slaves so they could produce even more cotton. The south was more wealthy then the north and it increased slave trade even more. The cotton gin made relations with north and the south even more tense.


How did the invention of the cotton gin affect the south?

The cotton gin increased production of cotton exponentially in the south. Which increased the economy in the south greatly. The south then began to increase in the number of slaves so they could produce even more cotton. The south was more wealthy then the north and it increased slave trade even more. The cotton gin made relations with north and the south even more tense.


Which invention led to an increase in the demand for slaves?

The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 increased demand forh slaves. Cotton was hand picked those days and cotton needed. The transatlantic slave trade reached its peak between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries spurred by the growth of large plantations in North and South America.


Did cotton trade between north and south start the civil war?

not really


What were the differences between the north and the south besides slavery?

North had more factories, the South had more Cotton Plantations.


How did the north benefit from cotton?

the north turned the cotton into thread


What are facts about the cotton boom?

During the antebellum period in the Southern cotton growing States, the demand for cotton, both in the textile mills in the North and the demand in Great Britain for their textile mills was large. Cotton brought allot of wealth to Southern plantain owners. The owners of cotton plantations benefited from: * The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney; * The cotton gin was a machine that removed seeds from the cotton that was ready to harvested. Prior to that, slaves had to clean the seeds away by hand. The cotton gin saved time and labor; * Southern plantation owners used slave labor which in that period of time was allot cheaper than hiring workers; and * The wealth brought to the South and to the North as well, brought forth the slogan "King Cotton".


What was the single most factor that led to two different ways of life and the north and south?

The invention of the cotton-gin. This made cotton so profitable that Southern farmers began to calculate that they could break away and form a separate nation.


How did the invention of the cotton gin increase slavery in the south?

More slaves were needed to keep up with the increased demand for cotton.


Industry differences with north and south?

South- cotton North- non cotton


What were the difference in culture between the north and south during the antebellum era?

The North - healthy mix of farming and manufacturing industry, fast-growing population, many of them skilled workers from Europe. The South - a cotton-based economy, which had grown highly profitable since the invention of the cotton-gin, causing a lot of quite ordinary farmers to pose as feudal knights of chivalry, discouraging their sons from going into trade or industry.