U.S. History
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- The warm climate, fertile soil, and long growing period made the South an optimal spot for growing cash crops like tobacco and cotton. With the invention with the cotton gin there was a lot more crops that were abandoned to grow more cotton. Along with the additional land from removing indigenous people, making growing cash crops really good in the south.
- Another important part of the south is that the south uses a lot of things like rivers to transport goods and a lot of the larger cities in the south are on rivers because of the easier to farm factor. This worked because cotton would cheaply and easily be put onto steamboats where they would be taken to ports. The south didn't have many railroads like the north so they were forced to use rivers as the main navigable source, which is why most southern cities were at these waterways.
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- The society has clear divisions, a few people are very lucky to be at the top with land holdings, but most of the southerners could not get that much wealth. Most didn't know it but the class structure was tradition and comfort in one's life. The difference between the rich and the poor is big because the labor system is necessary for its survival.
- Women were affected by the structure as well because plantation society made it so slave ownership was needed. The slave ownership made it so that women could be housewives in the domestic realm. This made it so that women were free of their labor duties, so they could focus on her children and husband
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- The social hierarchy went in a certain order, the order is planters, small farmers, poor farmers, and slaves. The planters were the wealthy part of society, they usually owned more than 20 slaves, and they were large land owners. Planters dominated social and political life. Small farmers owned land, and had fewer than 20 slaves, they also had very little chance for social mobility, and while they did participate in government, they rarely held office.
- In the lower side of the hierarchy, poor farmers were where most free southerners were, they live in foothills or mountains, and they are usually of Irish descent. They did little in the government and they didn't have slaves. At the bottom of the hierarchy is slaves, slaves usually worked on plantations, and they had no rights or freedom.
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