Yes, it is true that the domestication of plants (and animals) led to more stationary settlements during the First Agricultural Revolution, since this led to a surplus of food--meaning that people no longer had to "hunt and gather" for their food.
The cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber
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Some, unable to pay their mortgages, lost their plantations when
the banks foreclosed. Some sold out to Northern carpetbaggers.
Those who were able to keep their land realized that they could not
sustain cotton production on an industrial scale without the slave
labor force, because they could not afford to pay living wages.
They developed a system called sharecropping by which the field hands would receive a portion of the crop in exchange for their
labor. The sharecroppers lived on the plantation in their own
shacks. In practice, the system was little better than slavery. the sharecropper had to pay their rent out of their share of the crop,
with very littl left over for anything beyond subsistence.
Following increased pressure from Southern politicians, Congress passed a revised Fugitive Slave Act in 1850. Part of Henry Clay's famed Compromise of 1850—a group of bills that helped quiet early calls for Southern secession—this new law forcibly compelled citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves.
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