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What made growing cash crops profitable for the South?
The practice of slavery made the growing of cash crops profitable in the South. It was decades after slavery that mechanization made it extremely profitable again.
Was slavery expensive or profitable for the southern economy?
It was very profitable. It allowed the southern colonies to hold profitable tobacco planting. Off this staple crop, they made a lot of money.
What made slavery so profitable?
Slavery was so profitable, it sprouted more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River valley than anywhere in the nation. With cash crops of tobacco, cotton and sugar cane, America's southern states became the economic engine of the burgeoning nation.
How did the cotton boom affect the economy and society of the South?
Late in the 18th century, slavery and cotton began to fade as an important economic factor for the south and the US as a whole. Cotton production was too labor intensive. This changed with Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin. This invention allowed for the manual seed plucking from the cotton plants to become "mechanized". More cotton could be produced over the same amount of land. European textile mills and New England mills also clamored for the crop. Cotton became a money making farm crop and enhanced the US's entire economy in the antebellum days. Demand remained high and the southern plantations expanded to meet that demand.
What crop that first made slavery profitable?
Slavery made all crops MORE profitable. If you're talking about America, slaves were brought to the Caribbean to cut sugar cane in droves. This is probably the biggest crop using most slaves initially. Cotton became a big slave labor driven industry in the 19th century for several reasons. However, slaves were initially and primarily owned and used as domestic helpers in the Americas. Only once certain industrial processes were invented and began to be applied to agricultural products such as cotton, which allowed its large scale PROCESSING, did the demand for the RAW cotton skyrocket and thus the demand for slaves to pick it increase as well. If I may say so, the question is backwards. Certain crops did not make slavery profitable, there had always been a market for slaves. It was Slavery which made certain crops profitable.
What invention made slavery most profitable?
the cotton gin
What invention caused the expansion of slavery in the south?
Cotton gin. Cotton gin made cotton production more profitable.
What inventor caused slavery to be fastened upon the south?
Eli Whitney was likely the inventor who solidified the practice of slavery in the South. His invention of the cotton gin made cotton monstrously profitable.
How did the invention of the cotton gin change the ideas about slavery in the south?
The cotton gin made selling cotton profitable with slave labor.
What made growing cash crops profitable for the South?
The practice of slavery made the growing of cash crops profitable in the South. It was decades after slavery that mechanization made it extremely profitable again.
What invention made cotton more profitable for the south during the civil war?
The cotton gin
What invention made plantations in the south more profitable?
The cotton gin. It allowed the removal of the seeds.
Why didnt south want slavery to end?
It made the cotton trade so profitable.
What made slavery profitable in the South?
because the slave owners would make alot of money from farming
Slavery in the southern colonies?
Slavery in the southern colonies increased after the invention of the cotton gin. This invention made plantation agriculture extremely lucrative; slavery was abolished in 1865.
What invention is credited with saving slavery in the South?
The cotton-gin. It vastly expanded the production and export of cotton, and made slavery seem like an essential element in American prosperity.
Slavery in the colonies?
Slavery in the southern colonies increased after the invention of the cotton gin. This invention made plantation agriculture extremely lucrative; slavery was abolished in 1865.
