timeline of the cotton gin
1793
U.S. slave population reached about 700,000.
after 1793
More plantations appeared in southern states.
1861
Civil Wor began.
1600
1650
1700
1750
1800
1850
1800
1793
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
after 1793 Derose for con
England mills.
1860
U.S. slave population reached about 4 million.
Based on the timeline, what can be directly tied to the invention of the cotton gin?
(1 point)
• industrialization in New England
• the Civil War
• the spread of slavery
economic hardships in the South