How did the cotton gin impact the economy and society of Georgia? It contributed to an increase in cotton production and an increase in slavery.

It contributed to an increase in cotton production and a decrease in slavery.

It contributed to the great recession of 1804

It contributed to a decrease in slavery and an increase in tobacco production.

It contributed to an increase in cotton production and an increase in slavery.

Explanation:

Around 1785, planters along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia began importing high-quality cotton from the West Indies and learned to successfully cultivate the crop that made Caribbean planters, merchants, and slave traders rich. With the advent of the gin, cotton harvesting with slave labor became extremely profitable for plantation owners.

while it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

explanation:

before eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin, picking and cleaning cotton was a slow, labor-intensive job. workers, usually slaves, had to pick the seeds from the cotton fibers by hand. this invention made it possible to grow large amounts of cotton on big farms and make money.