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Planters moved from the Old South to the Deep South to do what?
They are the same place with different names.
How did Eli Whitney make the civil war more likely and give the union an advantage once the war began?
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.
Why was the southern economy dependent on cotton?
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.
How did American sugar planters go outside the law to gain control over Hawaii?
They gained their power under the "Bayonet Constitution"of 1887.
Where did the New Zea-land troops fight in World War 1?
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