{"id":25852,"date":"2026-11-01T03:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T21:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/georgia-cotton-expansion-enslaved-labor\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T03:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T21:47:26","slug":"georgia-cotton-expansion-enslaved-labor","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/georgia-cotton-expansion-enslaved-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"How did cotton expansion affect enslaved labor despite faster cotton processing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How did cotton expansion affect enslaved labor despite faster cotton processing?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>It immediately ended all coerced agricultural labor<\/li>\n<li>It removed the demand for plantation land<\/li>\n<li>It confined slavery entirely to urban factories<\/li>\n<li>It sustained demand for enslaved field labor<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","subject":[12],"topic":[4036,4005],"education_level":[1896],"class_list":["post-25852","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","subject-united-states-of-america","topic-civil-war-and-antebellum-georgia","topic-georgia-facts","education_level-hsc"],"mcq_note":"<p>The cotton gin's labor-saving processing did not end coercive labor; expanding cotton cultivation sustained demand for enslaved labor.<\/p>\n\n<p>Technology that makes one stage faster can encourage expansion at another stage. In this case, easier processing supported a larger cotton economy rather than automatically ending the coercive field labor on which plantations depended.<\/p>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"It immediately ended all coerced agricultural labor"},{"right":"no","answer":"It removed the demand for plantation land"},{"right":"no","answer":"It confined slavery entirely to urban factories"},{"right":"yes","answer":"It sustained demand for enslaved field labor"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":12,"title":"United States of America","slug":"united-states-of-america"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":4036,"title":"Civil War and Antebellum Georgia","slug":"civil-war-and-antebellum-georgia"},{"id":4005,"title":"Georgia Facts","slug":"georgia-facts"}],"education_level_terms":[{"id":1896,"title":"HSC","slug":"hsc"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/25852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=25852"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=25852"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=25852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}