EMERGENCE OF USA
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT
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The northern economy was dependent on slave labor.
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The northern economy could pay slaves more.
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The southern economy does not want slaves.
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The northern economy was not dependent on slave labor.
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Detailed explanation-1: -One theory is that it was economic. Some argued that the emerging middle class, especially in Britain, believed that slavery didn’t really help them economically. These middle-class industrialists and business owners did their work without slaves.
Detailed explanation-2: -One of the primary reasons for the reinvigoration of slavery was the invention and rapid widespread adoption of the cotton gin. This machine allowed Southern planters to grow a variety of cotton-short staple cotton-that was especially well suited to the climate of the Deep South.
Detailed explanation-3: -Within the southern colonies of America between 1607 and 1775 factors such as available farm land, the increased production of agricultural crops, and general need for a stable labor force led to the development of slavery.
Detailed explanation-4: -Slavery was so profitable, it sprouted more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River valley than anywhere in the nation. With cash crops of tobacco, cotton and sugar cane, America’s southern states became the economic engine of the burgeoning nation.