USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -During the first half of the nineteenth century, demand for cotton led to the expansion of plantation slavery. By 1850, enslaved people were growing cotton from South Carolina to Texas.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cotton has been called a cash crop because, in the majority of cases, cotton was (and is) grown specifically for the purpose of being sold.

Detailed explanation-3: -After the invention of the cotton gin (1793), cotton surpassed tobacco as the dominant cash crop in the agricultural economy of the South, soon comprising more than half the total U.S. exports.

Detailed explanation-4: -Cotton, however, emerged as the antebellum South’s major commercial crop, eclipsing tobacco, rice, and sugar in economic importance.

Detailed explanation-5: -Among the U.S. States, Texas is the largest producer, contributing approximately 40 percent of U.S. cotton production in recent years. Other top cotton producers include Georgia, Mississippi, and Arkansas.