A. Innovations in agricultural technology increased the production of cotton. As a result, Southern plantations needed greater numbers of enslaved workers. Explanation:
<span>Innovations in agricultural technology increased the production of cotton. As a result, Southern plantations needed greater numbers of enslaved workers.
The cotton gin created in 1794 by Eli Whitney decreased the amount of time used to pick the seeds out of the cotton. The cotton could be processed more quickly which means the owners wanted more cotton to process. To pick more, plantation owners needed more slaves to pick higher quantities of cotton. </span>
The Glass-Steagall Act effectively separated commercial banking from investment banking and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, among other things
