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Chapter 13

Section 3: Southern CottonKingdom

Introduction

  • In the ______the South seemed to be an underdeveloped ______region with prospect for future growth.
  • Most Southerners lived along the ______coast in ______, ______, and ______in what became known as the Upper South.
  • By the 1850’s the South’s population had spread inland into the ______- a band of states spreading from ______through South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, and ______
  • The economy was thriving, and ______grew stronger than ever in the ______
  • ______had transformed the stagnant economy of the South into a prosperous, robust economy.
  1. Rise of the CottonKingdom
  2. ______had not always been the South’s leading ______
  3. In colonial times ______was the most profitable crop in ______
  4. Georgia and South Carolina produced ever-increasing quantities of ______and ______
  5. ______was raised in southeastern Louisiana
  1. The Cotton Gin
  1. The growth of the British ______industry in the late 1700’s had created a huge demand for cotton
  2. After harvesting, workers had to separate the plants ______from the cotton fibers
  3. Cotton production was revolutionized in 1793 when ______invented the ______, a machine that removed seeds from cotton fibers 50 times faster than doing it by hand
  1. New Lands for Cotton
  1. The removal of ______from the Southeast in the early 1800’s opened the way for expanding ______across the Deep South
  2. ______springs and summers and ______autumns made the Deep South suitable for cotton production
  3. On large plantations, cotton growing went hand in hand with ______
  1. Cotton Rules the Deep South
  1. Intense demand for cotton in ______kept the price of cotton ______in the years before 1860
  2. The value of ______people increase because of their key role in producing ______and ______
  3. The Deep South was committed to producing ______while the Upper South became a center for ______
  1. Industry’s Limited Role in the South
  2. Unlike the industrial ______, the South remained mostly ______
  3. The South accounted for only a small amount of the nations ______in the 1850’s
  1. Barriers to Industry

Why was there so little industry in the South?

  1. Boom in ______
  2. Southerners remained committed to ______
  3. Lack of available ______
  4. Many wealthy Southerners believed that an economy and based on ______and ______would continue to ______
  5. The market for ______was smaller in the South
  6. Some simply didn’t want ______to flourish
  1. Southern Factories
  2. Some Southerners believed that the South was becoming ______on the ______
  3. There were a few ______in the South
  1. Southern Transportation
  2. Natural ______provided the chief means for ______goods in the South
  3. The ______boom that the North experienced in the 1840’s and 1850’s did not take hold in the South until later
  4. By ______only about one-third of the nation’s rail lines were in the South
  5. This would be a problem for the South during the ______