HIST-UA 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cotton Gin
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Cotton kingdom was adopted when there was a rise in production of cotton in the southern regions of america. During the nineteenth century the prices for crops such as tobacco was going under a depression. In the southern regions of the south rice required a lot of irrigation and it required a longer growing season. Even sugar crops required extensive work which wasn"t helpful. But since the cotton gin was invented there was a rise in the production of cotton. In the 1820s, the cotton production started to increase rapidly and then by the 1850"s it became a staple in the southern economy. There were fluctuations for the price of cotton because at some point there was overproduction of cotton. By the time it was civil war, cotton consisted of two-thirds the total exports trade for the. The cotton kingdom was located in the settled areas of the. Deep south and they dominated cotton production: planter class.
