Which one of these is the RESULT of the others? cotton boom * huge increase in internal slave trade Whitney-Greene cotton gin British and Americans ban international slave trade. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the American economy * benefited greatly from the connection between southern slavery and northern industry. suffered because of the South's slave system. depended primarily on northern industrial production. depended primarily on profits from slave-grown cotton. Of all the New World slave societies, the one that existed in the South was the only one that * grew by natural increase. imported its slaves from Africa. did not import female slaves. never had a slave rebellion. A common defense of the institution of slavery by slave owners was that * slaves were treated better than northern industrial workers. slave children played with white children. slaves lived better on southern plantations than the natives in Africa. slaves lived much longer than whites. The most successful slave revolt was led by Hinton Helper. * Nat Turner. Denmark Vesey. Gabriel Prosser.