Who invented the cotton gin?

Related questions

• Why was Ogelthorpe's prohibition of slavery reversed?
• How was life in the Tidewater different from life in the backcountry South?
• How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act affect the amount of land that was open to slavery?
• What problems did Southern cotton planters face?
• How did the conflict over slavery lead to Bleeding Kansas?
• How did African slaves contribute to the development of the Americas?
• How did Harriet Tubman become a conductor on the Underground Railroad?
• Why did the nation's business boom bypass the South?
• How did the three-fifths compromise help the south preserve slavery?
• What impact did the three-fifths compromise have on the political future of the United States?