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However, dividing the United States by simply labeling states "North and South" or "slave and free" was difficult. By
the 1850s, slavery had become important to the ENTIRE U.S. economy. As much of the US was concerned over the de
lack of need for slaves after the Rev. War, the invention of the Cotton Gin in 1793 made slavery rapidly expand in
America. This change would later reflect how slavery was not only a large part of the national economy of the
United States, but also with the global economy as slave-produced cotton products became desired all over the
world. The value of slaves increased and was worth $3 billion total by 1860; this exceeded the value of all the
manufacturing goods of the North ($1.73 billion). However the two economies were connected and depended on
each other. The Southern states provided the raw cotton that the Northern factories used to make cloth. This
interconnectedness of the northern and southern economies meant that the price of one depended on the value
of the other.
Is this economic dependency, if so tell me how for both North and then South?