What development in 1794 played the most significant role in the rapid expansion of slave labor in the United States?
a. Eli Whitney’s patenting of the cotton gin
b. the development of the first party system
c. the Supreme Court decision that slaveholders’ ownership of slaves could not be constitutionally limited by state or national legislation
d. an act of Congress which reopened the international slave trade for the first time since the American Revolution
a. Eli Whitney’s patenting of the cotton gin
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