Significant impacts of Eli Whitney?s cotton gin included all the following EXCEPT
A) it maintained the supply of cotton for the new machinery.
B) it enabled workers to clean more than 50 times as much cotton each day as before the
invention.
C) the perpetuation of slavery in the United States.
D) it caused India to replace the U.S. as Britain?s source of cotton.
E) none of the above.
D
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