The five ways in which the cotton gin affected the South.

"Slaves became more important and valuable" "Southern attitudes about slavery hardened" "Cotton became the principal southern crop" "Cotton became a major U.S. export" and "Land under production declined" are all correct, since there was never a true caste system in the South.

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b. ensure mutual protection from communism.

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