For whatever reason, the fields smell like super glue to me, and I just learned that if you apply enough super glue to cotton, it will combust.
Not all south american countries import cotton.
The south had to have slaves to work the cotton and rice fields ,it was solely for profit.
North was against slavery, and south wanted more slavery. south wanted more slavery so they could work on the cotton fields. if more people work on cotton fields the south would have more money.
Cotton is a warm weather plant. It grows in southern states and in central California. I live in central California and today I think we grow more cotton than is grown in the south. We have fields and fields of cotton.
Yes, sou see cotton and even tobacco fields while passing North and South Carolina.
Most of the cotton produced in the American South after the invention of the cotton gin was sold to Great Britain. The British textile industry relied heavily on American cotton to fuel its production of textiles during the Industrial Revolution. This trade relationship greatly increased the demand for cotton, leading to the expansion of cotton plantations in the South.
sold to england
I dont know of any precise figures, but not all that much. Cotton was grown mostly in the deep south, where its still cultivated today. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas southern Georgia. The crop did not flourish in the upper south, which remained a tobacco cultivating area.
Cotton.
That they would lose profit from all of the cotton fields
The cotton kingdom grew so they needed more people to work in the cotton fields.
Why were the first American railrodas built in the south