History

Tessa Swanson

16 June, 07:29

Before the development of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, American farmers:

A. used the inefficient Lowell system to produce cotton goods for export.

B. shipped their cotton to China, Japan, and the Ottoman Empire for processing.

C. hired British workers to separate the cotton seeds from the fiber.

D. could grow large quantities of cotton but could not process it very quickly.