USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Confederate States of America (1861–1865) started with an agrarian-based economy that relied heavily on slave-worked plantations for the production of cotton for export to Europe and to the northern US.

Detailed explanation-2: -Southern economy was dependent on slave labour because they grew labour intensive cash crops. The south was mainly dependent on agriculture and farming as the main economy, and to maintain large plantations and fields slave labour was needed.

Detailed explanation-3: -The twin disadvantages of a smaller industrial economy and having so much of the war fought in the South hampered Confederate growth and development. Southern farmers (including cotton growers) were hampered in their ability to sell their goods overseas due to Union naval blockades.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Confederate government used both enslaved and free African-Americans to build fortifications around cities such as Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia, and Wilmington, North Carolina. The Confederate relied on enslaved African Americans to raise crops and provide labor for the army.