SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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Agriculture, Cash crops & making money
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Fishing, furniture building, & rum
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Harvesting jewels from the Appalachian Mts. & making jewelry
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Raising silk worms brought from Asia to make sails for ships
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Detailed explanation-1: -There was great wealth in the South, but it was primarily tied up in the slave economy. In 1860, the economic value of slaves in the United States exceeded the invested value of all of the nation’s railroads, factories, and banks combined.
Detailed explanation-2: -With cash crops of tobacco, cotton and sugar cane, America’s southern states became the economic engine of the burgeoning nation.
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. The concept of “King Cotton” was first suggested in David Christy’s book Cotton Is King (1855).
Detailed explanation-4: -The cash crops of the southern colonies included cotton, tobacco, rice, and indigo (a plant that was used to create blue dye). In Virginia and Maryland, the main cash crop was tobacco. In South Carolina and Georgia, the main cash crops were indigo and rice.