Who was Eli Whitney and what did he do? How did this effect the South?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: He was an American inventor. Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton of the cotton gin led to the spread of the slavery-based "cotton kingdom" in the Deep South.
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