For the South, the most important commercial innovation of the 1790s was the invention of the __________.

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The cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, revolutionized the cotton industry by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. This invention made cotton production much more profitable and led to a significant increase in the number of plantations and the demand for slave labor in the South.

For the South, the Most Important Commercial Innovation of the 1790s