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Who profited most from the union of slavery and cotton production?
Large plantation owners
Who profit from slavery?
who profited most from the union of slavery and cotton production
Why did some southern states want to withdraw from the Union?
The North and South were arguing about the existance of slavery, and Abraham Lincoln was elected president. He was anti-slavery, and abolishing slavery would destroy the South's slave based economy (cotton). They seceeded from the Union to keep their slaves.
Why did slavery exist in the southern US?
Back then, the whites descriminated against the blacks, because they thought they were better. During the Civil War, the Northern United States (Union) was against slavery, but not the South. The South had a big cotton production, and it was very hard to pick that cotton and get the seed out. That was the work that slaves would do, and so the Southern states believed that slavery was the only way to keep up the cotton production. Once the Union won, the main cotton state, Texas, had it's government collapse. Thankfully, later the cotton gin was invented which solved this problem.
Why did the Union think slavery was bad?
Most of the Northern population believed that on moral and religious grounds, slavery was an evil institution. The Northern economy was not based on slavery, although the cotton from the South was produced by the labor of slaves.
How did the cotton gin impact the cotton industry and slavery?
Seperated the seeds from the cotton.
What is the relationship between slavery and cotton production?
Cotton production could not have been done profitably without slavery.
What three things work together to make the southern economy?
Cotton, Slavery, and Oil
What ethnic problems are there with cotton?
there was a slavery issue in the cotton fields.
The cotton gin was a machine that could?
seperate cotton from the cotton seeds and improved slavery
What southern states had slavery?
All the Southern states had slavery. But not all of them joined the Confederacy. Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware remained loyal - a very big factor in the Union victory.
Was William sherman against or for slavery?
He was against slavery, because he was on the union side. The union side was against slavery.
