Cotton - their only big commodity.
But the Union blockade of Southern ports largely prevented this.
The crops in the South were cash crops and crops in the North were consumable crops.
Cotton was the crop king of the south.
Cotton was the South's main crop before the Civil War.
This question seems to speak about US history. In the South, most crop workers were slaves. In the North, farmlands were worked by farm owners and their paid farm workers.
Cotton was the main cash crop of the South during the Reconstruction Era.
English planters in colonial South Carolina.I believe the crop originated in Africa.
The north had factories and textile mills. The south had industrial scale cash-crop agriculture.
The North has cattle, wheat, and corn. The North farmed and food to eat. Which the South had cotton, their cash crop.
Corn was the staple crop of early Indian civilizatons in North and South America.
The crops in the South were cash crops and crops in the North were consumable crops.
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The crop that was prosperous for the South was cotton.
Cotton was the crop king of the south.
The most profitable crop in the south was 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.
Slavery increased in North America primarily due to the demand for labor in the agricultural industry, particularly in the southern colonies where large-scale plantations were established. The profitability of growing cash crops like tobacco, rice, and cotton led to the expansion of slavery as plantation owners sought to maximize their production outputs. Additionally, the transatlantic slave trade provided a steady supply of enslaved individuals to meet the labor needs of the growing colonies.
No, the leading crop raised in the South was cotton