As cotton became the backbone of the Southern economy, slavery drove impressive profits. The benefits of cotton produced by enslaved workers extended to industries beyond the South. In the North and Great Britain, cotton mills hummed, while the financial and shipping industries also saw gains.
The LTTE wanted the Tamil to be independent, therefore started the civil war that went on for 3 decades.
Factors for:
The land was suited to growing sugar.
Sugar was easy to load and ship.
Sugar was in HIGH demand. It was almost seen as a necessity by some people.
Answer is : The size of the world's tropical forests will be reduced considerably.
The map let us appreciate the danger of forests Brazil,Colombia,Peru, (America) the Democratic Republic of Congo,(Africa) Indonesia, and Myanmar. (Asia)
The deforestation rates in South America each year tremendously grow, where the Amazon located in Brazil is the most critical area to suffer if the rhytm continues. In fact, the Amazon is the biggest deforestation area in the world nowadays and direct interventions is urgent and necessary to prevent a great ecological tragedy where there is no turning back.
In Africa. the area endangered are mainly the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that stretch into Central Africa. The forests of the Central African region will continue to suffer a great loss if no policies are taken as well as intervention to reverse or reforest the regions that currently could be also by human artifical means repaired. In South East Asia the sitation continues to be quite similar to the rest of the world.
Estimates calculate by year 2030, practically all major forests in the world will have been lost, and as a result uncountable numbers of animal and other species are condemned to extinction.
I would say 30,000 cause all the next developments were from the 1860's forward and that is when huge growth happened, after 1860.
