Essay On Southern Economy

The South geographically was warm and sunny with long summers, which caused it to have fertile soil that was ideal for agriculture. Only one fourth of the white male pollution owned slaves and in which most southerners lived on small farms, while very few have large farms know as plantations. The fact that many southerners lived on farms there were very few large cities. Farms often had to be self-sufficient and had to supply all the basic need of the people on it. The southern economy was mainly built around agriculture harvesting Tabaco, cotton, rice, indigo, and sugar cane as cash crops. Cotton became the most important crop after the Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin. Now slave owners needed more slaves to pick cotton because the cotton gin sped up production making slave labor essential for the southern economy. While the southern culture was mainly determined by the upper class plantation owners only children of a plantation owner received a proper education while others had little to no education. …show more content…
Although the north having most of the immigrant population it gave them a huge hard working labor force that would work for cheap. Almost all northern states were industrialized producing consumer products and the increase in factory work attracted more people. The north was where public education begun and was a important center for art and cultures of all kinds. While the South’s whole economy was based around agriculture the North’s economy was based on manufacturing good. They took raw products (like cotton from the south) and manufactured consumer goods (cloths). In the not both religion and education were organized almost every town had a church and a public school even thought very few boy and no girls went to secondary school and higher education was reserved for the well-off