because the cotton that had been planted before had soaked up all of the nutrients in the soil so they needed new land to plant more cotton
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They are the same place with different names.
His invention of the cotton-gin turned ordinary planters into a new aristocracy that discouraged their sons from going into industry or commerce, while meantime the North was developing new manufacturing technology. When the war came, the North was able to manufacture all manner of war supplies, while the South had to try to import them, against the successful US Naval blockade.
South was depending too much on cotton.And I think that they needed a new investment which would explain why they depended on the cotton.
They gained their power under the "Bayonet Constitution"of 1887.
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