It was china that was carved into spheres of influence for the united kingdom, Germany, Japan, France, Russia, and the United States.
It would be easy bank credit, cheap public land, and internal improvements at national expense.
Before the Civil War, or <em>Antebellum era, </em>the south was mainly an agricultural region, the major southern crops were:
Cotton on the first place, followed by grain, tobacco and sugar.
These are placed in order of the amount of land that was devoted to producing each one of them.
