The Growth Of Cotton
The Cotton Boom
The Cotton Trade
Agricultural Diversity
Sothern Factories
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slaveholder
Who was Landon Carter?
100
cotton belt
What was the area known as that grew most of the country's cotton crop.
100
Great Britain
Who became the south's most valuable foreign trading partner?
100
The use of the scientific method to improve farming.
What is scientific agriculture?
100
Southerner that believed the south needed more industries
Who is Hinton Rowan Helper
200
Slavery Declined
What was the result of agriculture declining after the American Revolutuion?
200
It cost less to transport.
What was an advantage for having light cotton.
200
Crop brokers who managed the cotton trade.
What are factors?
200
keeps soil healthy
What is crop rotation?
200
A graduate of the military academy at West Point that followed Hepler's advice.
Who is Joseph R. Anderson?
300
Cotton
What was considered cash crop by southerners?
300
Desease wiped them out
What happed to short-staple cotton in many areas during the 1830s?
300
the nation's rivers.
What did southern farmers rely on to ship their goods?
300
Wanted southerners to try a variety of crops and investments
Who is editor James D. B. De Bow
300
In 1848 Joseph R. Anderson became the owner of it in Richmond.
What is Tredegar Iron Works?
400
It grew well in only few places.
What was the problem with long staple cotton?
400
They used more slave labor than ever.
What did did planters do rather than pay wages to free workers?
400
Steamboats
What was the main method of transporation?
400
Remained the most important southern food crop
What is corn?
400
South's industry growth lagged behind the North because of these cash crops.
What are tobacco and cotton?
500
Short-staple and green-seed cotton were harder to remove the seeds.
What was the problem with short-staple and green-seed cotton?
500
They sold slaves to cotton and suger planters.
How did slave holders from states like Virginia and Maryland profit?
500
South had only 14% ofthe country's total canal mileage.
Why did the transportation Revolution have a wider impact in the north than in the south?
500
Crop that never became popular until Jean Etienne Bore invented a new stystem for processing it.
What is sugar cane?
500
They invested in land and slaves as a result
What did they do to grow more cotton?
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