During the Industrial Revolution, how did innovations in technology affect the labor of enslaved people in the United States?

The cotton gin made it faster to separate cotton fibers from seeds, making cotton production more profitable and encouraging the expansion of cotton plantations. Those plantations relied on enslaved labor, so the demand for enslaved workers increased. Therefore, the correct choice is “Innovations in agricultural technology increased the production of cotton. As a result, Southern plantations had greater numbers of enslaved workers.”

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