How did the invention of the cotton gin affect slave labor in the United States?

Without the cotton gin, slaves had to hand-pick the seeds from cotton one-by-one, and it was a lengthy process. But with the cotton gin, they were able to produce the cotton a lot faster.

This caused slave-owners to get more slaves since the cotton gin could produce so quickly with great effort and result.

social status of early civilizations was based primarily on economic power.- true ( first choice)

the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.