Question

How did cotton gin cause slavery to go west

Answer 1

Following are the reasons how the invention of cotton gin caused slavery to go west:

• The invention of cotton gin simplified the process of removing the seeds from cotton.

• The overall simplification of the process made the cotton-growing farmers take more land under cultivation.

• The unused lands of the west were thus started being preferred by the farmers for growing cotton.

• Hence, to work on the cotton fields in the west, the farmers took slaves to the west.