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in 2002 demand for domestic cotton increased more than 3 million bales, reaching 18.7 million bales

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What are some reasons for the cotton boom?

Cotton was a prized crop in the American colonies and later in the United States. There was a worldwide demand for this crop and it was used to make all types of clothing. The US Southern climate was ideal for growing cotton and much of it was purchased by the Northern industrial US States and in England. The demand seemed to have no limits. When the cotton gin was invented in allowed for an easier way to remove seeds from cotton. More cotton was produced and sold worldwide as its demand seemed never to cease. With that said, cotton became a boom crop because of the demand of it in textile mills in the US and in Europe.


What impact did the cotton gin have on slavery?

By making it inexpensive to process cotton, it increased the demand for cotton, which increased the demand for slaves to grow cotton.


Which technological development led to an increased demand for slaves in the US during the early to mid?

the cotton gin


How did the cotton gin change the slave population of the US?

It made it practical to put more slaves in the fields to produce more cotton. The demand and population jumped.


What caused a huge demand for cotton after the American revoiutino?

first, the question should read "REVOLUTION" and it was the European textile industry's desire for US Southern Cotton.


What Is Cotton Boom?

A time when cotton is in big demand. This happened in the Southern states after the invention of the cotton-gin, when they were able to supply the huge worldwide demand for cotton, and that region very quickly turned into a cotton empire.


What technological development led to an increased demand for slaves in the US during the early- to mid-1800s?

The Cotton Gin


Which technological development led to an increased demand for slaves in the US during the early- to mid-1800s?

the cotton gin


How did the cotton gin lead to a demand for more enslaved labores?

The Cotton Gin merely raised the demand for cotton as it was a machine that quickly separated the cotton from the seed. But what the Cotton Gin couldn't do was pick the cotton. Paying people to pick the cotton was now even less cost efficient...


How did the Cottongin lead to more slavery?

The invention of the cotton gin made it easier and faster to process cotton, leading to increased demand for cotton production. This demand resulted in the expansion of cotton plantations, which in turn increased the need for labor, leading to the use of more enslaved people to work on the plantations to meet the growing demand for cotton.


Why did cotton gin create a greater demand for slaves?

more cotton plantations were needed just took this on apex


Machine that increased the demand for slaves?

the machine thAT increased the demand for slaves was the cotton gin