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

The cotton gin made it much faster to separate seeds from cotton fibers, making cotton production more profitable and encouraging plantations to grow more cotton. This expanded the plantation system and increased demand for enslaved labor, so choice A is correct. The technology did not reduce the need for enslaved workers; instead, cotton expansion helped drive the growth of slavery in the South.

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