It made the cotton-farmers rich overnight, and they began to fantasise that they were a proud aristocracy, too good for industrial manufacturing.
This meant that they needed a lot of imports, and Congress had levied high tariffs on these, to protect American industry, which was nearly all in the North.
So Southern leaders planned to secede from the USA, and the huge cotton wealth seemed to make this feasible.
It dramatically increased cotton production
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It suggested that a new approach to the economy was developing in the South
Cotton
The south's economy was based largely on growing cotton. The north's economy was based on industry.
cotton
cotton
It is a machine (gin comes from engine) that quickly removes the seeds from raw cotton. It made cotton cheap to produce.
cotton was large selling crop. Most of South Carolina's money came from cotton.
The South's cotton economy was crucial for the South's survival, and was also helpful to the North. The South's cotton allowed the South to be a productive member of the Union.
The South was a cash crop economy of cotton and tobacco.
Cotton was crucial to the economy of the south.
cuz of the economy how there was nothing and the deep south was comitted to cotton, and, in some areas, to rice and sugarcane