HST 202 Lecture 21: HST Lecture 21 Notes
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South wanted to expand the planation economy where large cash crops could grow (texas) Used southern cotton to fuel northern industry. Home of own explicit labor practices ( industrial jobs staffed by poorer immigrant. Not really home of equality and good labor conditions population) 1840"s-1850"s cotton production had rapidly expanded across the deep south. The american south supplied to both domestic factories and factories in europe. Labor in the cotton eld was brutal, cotton farmers relied on the gang labor system to bring in massive crops of cotton every fall (september-november) Gang 1- strongest hands go rst, men and strongest women. Gang 2- slower hands, women and adolescents. Mexican war of cially ending with the signing of treaty guadeloupe hidalgo. Gold was found in the river in cali. The trip from east coast to california, suddenly became a quicker trip to the west.
