LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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The Northern states provided the labour for the cotton plantations.
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The Southern states developed the plantation system and the use of slave labour to produce cotton.
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The invention of the cotton gin reduced the South’s dependency on cotton farming.
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The cotton production fuelled the rise of manufacturing centres in the Southern states.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Accounting for almost 60% of American exports by the beginning of the Civil War, which statement regarding the impact of cotton is TRUE? The Northern states provided the labor for the cotton plantations .
Detailed explanation-2: -How did the shift of slave labor to the cotton states affect planters in the upper South? They began selling their slaves to cotton plantations to compensate for their crops’ decline in value.
Detailed explanation-3: -After four bloody years of conflict, the United States defeated the Confederate States. In the end, the states that were in rebellion were readmitted to the United States, and the institution of slavery was abolished nation-wide.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Civil War provided the economic foundation for the United States to become an industrial giant by strengthening the banking system, increasing the scale of industrializing even more than before, contracting private companies to produce war supplies, and subsidizing the costs to build the national rail road.
Detailed explanation-5: -Slave labor helped fuel the market revolution. By 1832, textile companies made up 88 out of 106 American corporations valued at over $100, 000. These textile mills, worked by free labor, nevertheless depended on southern cotton, and the vast new market economy spurred the expansion of the plantation South.