What resulted from the invention of the cotton gin? Poor farmers were able to become wealthy by growing cotton.
Cotton plantations suffered, as the price of producing cotton went down.
Plantations in Mississippi came to rely more heavily on the use of enslaved labor.
Many enslaved people were emancipated as the production of cotton became less labor intensive.

Which of the following statements about the economic consequences of the civil war is not accurate. a. inflation caused prices to rise by 80% in the north. b. because southern farms cannot process enough food for everyone in the south the union navy allowed food shipments from britain. c. to pay for all of the food supplies and arrangements that were necessary for the union army congress instituted an income tax. d. business boomed in the north as factories and farms always had a market for their products.