Cotton production and demand increased significantly after the 1793 invention of the cotton gin, which separated the sticky green seeds from short-staple cotton, which could be grown throughout the South.

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Eli Whitney’s cotton gin (1793) made seed separation from short-staple cotton vastly more efficient, so the correct answer is True.

1) Relevant knowledge points and concepts
- Short-staple cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) produces sticky seeds that are laborious to remove by hand; long-staple cotton was easier to clean but could only be grown in limited coastal areas.
- The cotton gin (engine) mechanically separated seeds from cotton fibers, dramatically increasing processing speed.
- Economic incentives: faster processing made short-staple cotton profitable over much larger areas of the Southern interior, driving expanded cultivation and market demand (domestic and British textile mills).

2) Step-by-step reasoning
- Before 1793, handpicking seeds from short-staple cotton was extremely time-consuming, limiting production and geographic range of profitable cotton farming.
- Whitney’s cotton gin mechanized seed removal, reportedly increasing cleaning speed up to dozens of times compared with hand labor.
- Because short-staple cotton could be grown in many parts of the South, mechanized cleaning made widespread cultivation economically attractive.
- As planters planted more short-staple cotton, raw cotton supplies surged, feeding textile mills in the United States and Britain and raising overall demand for cotton production.

3) Calculations/intermediate steps
- No numerical computation required; qualitative causal chain: increased cleaning efficiency → lower processing cost per pound → profitability over a larger area → increased planting and production → increased demand for cotton.

4) Why the correct answer is correct
- The cotton gin directly solved the crucial bottleneck (seed removal) for short-staple cotton, enabling its large-scale cultivation across the Southern states and thereby dramatically increasing cotton production and stimulating demand.

5) Why the other option (False) is incorrect
- Claiming False would ignore both the technological function of the cotton gin and the well-documented historical consequences: the expansion of cotton agriculture and the surge in cotton exports and textile industry inputs after 1793.

6) Conclusion
- The statement is True; this matches the provided correct answer.

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