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AP US History
Unit 6 – Industrialization and the Gilded Age, 1865–1898
Topic 6.5
How might America's agricultural industry be different if Eli Whitney had not invented the cotton gin?
The South wouldn't develop an economy based on agriculture at all without cotton as a cash crop.
Other cash crops couldn't rise to prominence due to lack of efficient harvesting methods.
There would be no technological advancements in agriculture during that era.
Cotton might've remained a minor crop rather than becoming integral to the Southern economy, possibly reducing slavery's expansion.
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