Chapter 14, Sections 1,2.

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Chapter 14, Sections 1,2.

• The Growth of Cotton and the Southern Economy.

2
Agriculture

• The South took great pride in agriculture, as an
  art passed down to successive generations.

But the truth was that farming in the South was
in decline.
3
Decrease in Slavery

• Northern states found it incompatible with
  liberty.
• Drop in prices made farmers scale back, or grow
  crops that demanded less labor.
• Cheaper to free slaves than feed them.

4
But then the growing textile industry required a
larger cotton crop, and therefore more slaves
were needed to harvest it.
5
Eli Whitney created the Cotton Gin

• That made it easier to remove the seeds from
  short-staple cotton.

6
The Cotton belt
stretched from South Carolina to Texas.
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Southern Citizens

• Planters- large scale farmers with more than 20
  slaves

• Factors- Crop brokers who managed trade between
  planters and customers

8
Etienne Bore

• Perfected a more efficient way to process
  Louisiana sugarcane.

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Cotton was wearing out the soil and making the
South dependent on foreign imports.
Some Southerners called for more industries.