JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONIAN AMERICA
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The growing of cotton had arisen from a command by King William IV of England
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Cotton was a multi-purpose product that boosted the supply of food, clothing, and building materials
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Cotton production represented the United States’ number one commodity for domestic use and export
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High levels of cotton was grown in every section of the U.S., North, South, and West
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Detailed explanation-1: -The title, King Cotton, comes from the fact that cotton was the major export of the United States in the early 1800s just prior to the Civil War time frame. By the 1850s, the cotton grown, shipped, and sold by southerners was worth more than all the rest of America’s exports put together.
Detailed explanation-2: -As a commodity, cotton had the advantage of being easily stored and transported. A demand for it already existed in the industrial textile mills in Great Britain, and in time, a steady stream of slave-grown American cotton would also supply northern textile mills.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cotton transformed the United States, making fertile land in the Deep South, from Georgia to Texas, extraordinarily valuable. Growing more cotton meant an increased demand for slaves. Slaves in the Upper South became incredibly more valuable as commodities because of this demand for them in the Deep South.
Detailed explanation-4: -Cotton accounted for over half of all American exports during the first half of the 19th century. The cotton market supported America’s ability to borrow money from abroad. It also fostered an enormous domestic trade in agricultural products from the West and manufactured goods from the East.