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Is it true that money for United States industry was supplied by southern plantation owners?
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∙ 14y ago
You could put it that way.
The import tariffs were passed by a Northern-dominated Congress to protect manufacturing Industry - which was all in the North.
The South were the ones who needed imports, having no manufacturing industry of their own. So it could look like a tax on the South to subsidise the North.
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What was the main industry of the Southern economy?
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What would most likely be supported by a Southern plantation owner in the early 1800s?
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Why did southern states fear the outlaw of slavery?
The southern states feared the outlawing of slavery because the slaves were they're profitable way of gaining money.
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They established public schools, roads, rail roads, and hospitals. Also reduced power of plantation owners.
Why did the south not have as much industrialization as the north?
The southern economy was based on agriculture and the plantation system. The north was forced to go to industry because they didn't have the fertile flat land to grow vast acres of crops. The southern states also had crops that they could grow easily and sell to Europe. Cotton, tobacco,rice, indigo all require hot weather that is found in the south.
How was education different in new England than in the southern colonies?
As early as 1634 New England had public schools, but the southern states depended on tutoring for the plantation children. Poor people and slaves didn't get any education.
Slaves were far more numerous in which colonies?
In the United States, slaves were far more numerous in the Southern colonies. They were used for plantation work which was very labor intensive.
What Southern states had the most cotton plantations?
As the US Civil War unfolded, cotton plantations had spread from South Carolina. The movement from this state took a westward and southern direction with Georgia, northern Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas becoming large cotton plantation states.
