How did the desire for cotton affect Native American people?

Long To understand the effect of the expansion of cotton culture on slave population.

Cotton was a profitable crop, but was not grown on a large scale because of the slow and difficult process of removing seeds from cotton bolls in order to produce a usable fiber. Plantation owners determined slave labor was needed to operate the southern plantations. It took a great deal of labor to plant, tend, and pick the cotton. Even more work was required to separate the seeds from the fibers and then to bale the cotton fibers. Planters bought slaves to do the labor. The invention of cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 changed this situation. Cotton culture expanded, as did slave populations. The effect of the cotton expansion improved production and slave population all across the South.

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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