Eli Whitney's cotton gin (1793)
- A
Was a small workshop invention with little impact on agriculture or the cotton economy
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Vastly increased cotton production efficiency, expanding slavery in the Deep South
- C
Eliminated the need for enslaved labor and accelerated emancipation across the South
- D
Was used exclusively in northern textile factories rather than on southern plantations
Explanation
Made short-staple cotton profitable; entrenched slavery instead of weakening it.