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- That's amazing! I heard that they also had amazing fertile soil, warm climate, and large waterways that were used for travel and planting crops.
- Exactly!
- Did you know that the South was one of the largest Geographic land throughout the nations?
- You mean crops like tobacco and cotton?
- Oh yeah! There was even some states that wanted slavery to be outlawed on these new lands!
- Wasn't the government back then a large system of seeking and organizing power? And that they would argue over slave ownership?
- Yes, this caused an unbalance between the free and the slave states. Luckily, Henry Clay had suggested a solution that was passed through congress as soon as possible.
- That is true. A lot of the decisions that were made caused arguments, such as when they gained 5,000 square miles of land after the Mexican-American war causing many disputes over slavery.
- Wasn't the cotton gin what was used to make it easy with money? And also supposed to help with the prevention of slavery?
- Southern farmers would use the money they got to buy goods from the North, West, and England.
- The economy of the South mostly revolved around cash crops such as tobacco, rice, sugar, and most importantly, cotton!
- You may think that but it actually back fired on the creator, Eli Whitney. It ended up creating a larger increase in slave labor since farmers would need more people the mend the crops and work the machines.
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