Cash crops were grown, often using slave labor, on big plantations and small farms throughout the south. Cotton, tobacco, and food crops (rice, Indian corn) were all grown to some extent, but cotton was by far the most profitable. In the first half of the nineteenth century, manufacturing was taking root in the North. Among the first industries to grow was textiles. Northern textiles were made from Southern cotton. Southern cotton fueled the South’s economy even more directly.
In both North and South, the institution of plantation slavery influenced the economy and social life, though to differing extents. In the South, slavery was important to not only the economy but also to the social order. Slavery provided the social stratification in the South. Slaves themselves were at the bottom of the ladder, followed by nonslaveholding yeoman farmers. Small slaveholders were in the middle of the later, and large plantation owners (who could sometimes have hundreds of slaves) were at the top. Even to the nonslaveholders, slavery was an important (though not necessarily good) institution.
Hinton Rowan Helper would not have argued against slavery so much if it were truly a “marginal” institution. He argued because it affected his economic and social position in society. George Fitzhugh, a southern slaveholder, argued for slavery because he, as a slaveholder, was affected by it. Every person in the south, from slaveholders to yeoman farmers to the slaves themselves, was affected by slavery. Slavery also had a tremendous economic impact in the South. It was a cash crop and could be profitably exported to foreign countries or sold to the North.
The Essay on South Africa’s Peaceful Social Change
An integrated society or methodological system on resolving certain conflicts is perhaps one of the key factors in buoying up peace within the post-settlement environment. The ideological milieu to such a coherent series of statements leading from a premise to a conclusion is divulged by traversing over the key figures and conceptual entities such as the merging of distinct technologies, ...
Cotton was the majority of the nation’s exports by 1840, and it was even more dramatically important in the south. A popular exclamation of the time was “cotton is king” because of its tremendous economic importance. The majority of cotton produced was grown on large plantations were many slaves worked to plant, tend, pick and clean the cotton. Cotton was very labor intensive and slavery was the source of the labor. Without cotton, the nation would have significantly less income and the remaining income would be disproportionately in the North.
Without slavery, a much smaller amount of cotton would have been produced. Even with cotton’s tremendous impact in the South, it also affected the North’s economy. In addition to being the majority of the nations exports, cotton was also a crop that was in demand within the nation. The North’s growing textile industry was fueled by cotton. By 1817, a small textile called Waltham was open. Later, Lowell and other larger scale textile factories were popping up. Textiles was one of America’s first prosperous industries, and it was fueled by slave produced cotton.
Slavery also affected the entire nation on a socio-political level. It tore the nation apart starting near 1820 and continuing until 1860. As time went on slavery tore the countries political party system apart. Proslavery and antislavery disagreed, and sometimes literally fought on the floor of Congress. By the time of the Compromise of 1850, the south was starting to mutter about secession. Slavery was immensely controversial in the antebellum republic, and it tore the country apart, even before 1850. It would not have done this if it were truly a marginal institution.
The Essay on South Korean Political Parties
Why have so many political parties existed in South Korea? We have previously discussed that the Chaebol is a prominent factor as well as is the existence of Koreas mixed-party electoral system. It is evident that a combination of these two factors creates the environment in which small minority political parties can thrive. Yet what would occur if these factors were to be manipulated? Would this ...
The Missouri Compromise (1819) was an important event that shaped much of antebellum politics, so clearly slavery was not peripheral to the development of American society prior to 1850. Slavery effected the North and South in a variety of economic, social, and political ways. It was economically important in the South, mostly because of cotton. Cotton was also important in the North, so slavery had an economic effect there. Slavery was responsible for the social stratification in the South, and slavery also caused the nation social/political chaos even before 1850. http://www. geocities. com/civilwarstudy101/essay1. html
