1861-1865
Background Throughout the antebellum period, the Northern and the Southern United States developed divergent economies as the North industrialized and commercialized while the South's mild climate and extended growing season allowed it to commit itself to commercial crop agriculture. Along with tobacco, rice, and sugar, the invention of the cotton gin allowed southern states to grow the most profitable cash crop of the era- cotton. The commitment to commercial agriculture required an enormous amount of labor in order to turn a profit, so as cotton cultivation spread across the South, so too did the labor system that supported it - slavery. While slavery existed in all thirteen North American English colonies at the outbreak of the American Revolution, slavery was not vital to the economy of the more northern areas whose climate did not allow cash crop cultivation. Slavery soon disappeared from the northern areas as the South became increasingly committed to the labor system. The divergent labor systems of the two regions - slave labor versus free labor - came to represent the differing economies, lifestyles, and desires of the two areas. Because of their conflicting life- styles, the two regions demanded very different policies from the federal government. The South's political climate rested on a states' rights philosophyHM Number | HM261W |
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Date Added | Thursday, March 15th, 2018 at 4:02pm PDT -07:00 |
UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 15R E 700813 N 3345948 |
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Decimal Degrees | 30.22851667, -90.91333333 |
Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 30° 13.711', W 90° 54.8' |
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 30° 13' 42.66" N, 90° 54' 48" W |
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Area Code(s) | 225, 985 |
Closest Postal Address | At or near 566-632 South Irma Boulevard, Gonzales LA 70737, US |
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