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Unit 4 – American Expansion, 1800–1848
Topic 4.13
What might have been the impact on the South's agrarian economy had Eli Whitney chosen not to share his invention of the cotton gin?
Slavery would have ended earlier in the South.
The North and South would merge their economic models into one unified system.
The South's economy would collapse due to lack of a dominant crop.
The South would likely have remained heavily dependent on other labor-intensive crops.
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