Question

What do you think are the two most important ways the cotton kingdom transformed the lives of African Americans, and why?

Answer 1

Cotton Kingdom = agricultural factory
-profits drew planters to Gulf states, they bought more slaves and land to grow more cotton and they buy even more slaves and land = cycle American society was affected in many ways by the growth of the Cotton Kingdom. One of those ways being that the South was for cotton production and the North was for factories such as textile mills. In a way it separated people. Due to the Cotton Kingdom expanding, so did slavery. In the book it states that slavery was "An institution that many Americans had expected to die out because its major crop, tobacco, exhausted the soil, now embarked on a period of unprecedented expansion"