Lesson 3 Southern Cotton Kingdom

Rise of the Cotton Kingdom:

• 1850: South pop. spread inland to the Deep South

• economy was thriving; however, it depended on slavery

Cotton is King:

• colonial times: chief crops were rice, indigo, and tobacco

• removing cotton seeds from cotton fiber was difficult

• Eli Whitney: inventor of the cotton gin; this quickly and easily removed the seeds from cotton fiber

• cotton gin helped workers process 50x faster each day

• demand for slaves and institution of slavery increased

• Upper South crops: tobacco, hemp, wheat, vegetables

• Deep South crops: cotton, rice, and sugarcane

• domestic slave trade: the trade of enslaved people within the U.S.

Southern Industry:

• industry grew slower in the South than in the North

• new industry=$$$

• to raise money for factories, they would have to sell slaves or land

• limited local market discouraged industries from developing

Southern Factories and Transportation:

• Southern leaders thought they depended too much on the North for manufactured goods

• factories such as textile, cotton mill, iron producers, and sawmill opened; however, they were not typical of the South

• Southerners relied on waterways such as rivers and canals because roads were poor and rail lines were short/not linked together

• Southern cities developed slowly than the North

• South had little industry that was still developing slowly