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Southerners were plantation farmers, so they didn't invest in the industry. Instead, they invested in slaves.
These leaders argued that by remaining committed to cotton production, the south was becoming dependent on the north for manufactured goods. These southerners also argued that factories and workshops would revive the economy of the Upper South, which was less prosperous than the cotton states.
The three groups that made up the south political leaders were Scalawags-white Southerners,Carpetbaggers . and African Americans eager.
The three groups that made up the south political leaders were Scalawags-white Southerners,Carpetbaggers . and African Americans eager.
Southern leaders pushed hard to attract industry. States offered large inducements and cheap labor to investors to develop the steel, lumber, tobacco, and textile industries.
Southern leaders pushed hard to attract industry. States offered large inducements and cheap labor to investors to develop the steel, lumber, tobacco, and textile industries.
The Southerners criticized the carpetbaggers. Why? well because the carpetbaggers were renovating the South as if they were bringing parts of the North in order to develop South as the North
The South's landscape was more fertile and rich than in the North. Wide and vast fields also contributed to large plantations for producing cash crops, such as tobacco. The North practice subsistence farming, for their terrain was much rockier and hills were more abundant. The North was the hub of shipping and fishing while the South practiced agriculture for their source of food and economically kept them ahead.
Southerners wanted to force the federal government to provide the same transportation improvements in the South that had benefited the West, Southerners believed that Congress was controlled by an alliance of leaders from the Northeast and the West, the 1828 tariff hit the South especially hard economically, Southerners wanted to divide the United States into two separate countries
The Southerners pointed out that northern industry relied on southern cotton. Southern slaveholders argued that slavery benefited both the South and the North because the North's textile and shipping industries depended upon cotton from the South.
These leaders argued that by remaining committed to cotton production, the south was becoming dependent on the north for manufactured goods. These southerners also argued that factories and workshops would revive the economy of the Upper South, which was less prosperous than the cotton states.
because the northern states were trying to abolish slavery, which was critical to the cotton and agricultural industry in the south.