Cotton and cotton alone.
That's why they needed so many foreign imports, so when the Northern-dominated Congress raised the tariff on imported goods (to protect US manufacturing industry, which was all in the North), the Southern states saw it as a hostile tax on the South.
The north had an industrial based economy. The south had an agricultural based economy.
The South's economy was primarily agrarian, heavily reliant on agriculture, especially cotton, and the use of enslaved labor, which created a plantation-based system. In contrast, the North's economy was more industrialized and diversified, with a focus on manufacturing, trade, and a growing labor force. This economic disparity contributed to differing social structures and political ideologies, ultimately leading to tensions that fueled the Civil War. The North's infrastructure also supported transportation and commerce more effectively than the South's, reinforcing these economic differences.
The North had an economy based on trade & manufacturing. The South's economy was based on farming. In the West, the economy was just emerging.
Slaves were expensive and cotton was a very hard crop to raise and maintaine. If a harvest of cotton failed it would negativiley impant the Souths economy.
commerce, handcrafts and farming
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By using it as a dye in the making of clothes
Because much of the souths economy depended on it.
it caused inflation, prices rose 9,000 percent %
Before the War it was great. During and afterwards it was terrible.
It is separated from North Korea, and Souths' economy is better than norths'.
because he wanted to abolish slavery and the souths economy depended on slavery for field work while the north had factories to fuel their economy
In the period lading up to the US Cvil War, the North had an emerging industrial economy. The South remained a plantation based agricultural economy with much less industrial capability than the North.
yes, it was. they needed the slaves to harvest their crops, such as cotton
Union forces tightened their enforcement of the coasts, hoping to strangle the Souths economy
The economy of the southern states(not colonies) was dependent on large plantations due to the production of cotton, the souths cash crop during the 1800's.
Souths Rugby was created in 1948.