Cotton. Befor the Civil War, the Southern States were the world's biggest cotton exporters.
African nations export oil, cotton, diamonds, coffee, cocoa, animals, copper, bauxite, uranium, iron, seafood,and tobacco. The most famous export is diamonds.
major crop of the southern colonies prior to the civil war
It was especially important for the southern US states and basically the reason for the Civil War. The southern States' economy almost totally depended on their cotton production and export. The southern USA was the #1 provider of cotton to the world, and that level of production and the need to keep prices competitive made slave labor necessary. During the Civil War cotton exports dwindled to almost nothing, and after the war the Southern States found that India and Egypt had taken over the cotton market. The loss of the cotton income made the southern States the poorest of the US, a situation that would endure until the economic boom that was WW 2.
tobacco and cotton
Its two thirds of the value of the nations export.
Cotton. Befor the Civil War, the Southern States were the world's biggest cotton exporters.
They could no export their cotton because of the US Naval blockade
African nations export oil, cotton, diamonds, coffee, cocoa, animals, copper, bauxite, uranium, iron, seafood,and tobacco. The most famous export is diamonds.
major crop of the southern colonies prior to the civil war
Because it made bulk transport of cotton to the coast and from there overseas the easiest. Cotton was an export industry, and the Southern colonies were untill the Civil War the biggest producers in the world.
The economy of the south depended on cotton, which was the largest export of the United States. Tobacco was the #2 crop in most of the south.
the northern blockade severely affected the south's ability to export its cotton
When the Southern states succeeded, it meant the North were no longer collecting their cotton export tariffs.
cotton i a major export.
this is important to the southern colonies because they rely on this to build homes and other things to help them make there colony better.
Cotton represented a majority of American export to china and the rest of the world. For such a valuable resource many people were caught in a crossfire of financial greed. Just as silk proved the most valuable to china, cotton proved the most valuable to America.