What factors made the Deep South the world’s greatest producer of cotton?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. A great demand for cotton arose because of the rise of textile manufacturing in England and, to a lesser extent, in New England.
2. The cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, cut labor costs involved in clearing the seeds from short-staple cotton, thus making it an easily marketable commodity.
3. A large expanse of prime agricultural land became available in the Southeast as white settlers pushed Indian tribes out of the area.
4. Slavery provided a flexible system of forced labor and allowed for operations on a scale
impossible for the family labor system of the agricultural North.
5. The South did not need artificial internal improvements as it had a natural transportation system of navigable rivers extending from the Atlantic coast deep into the interior and connecting to the port of New Orleans.
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