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Cotton was a very important and special crop in the South because it was one thing they can actually trade with other countries. They could even trade cotton with the North.
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Now I'm not positive but I think they had serps (slaves), the working conditions weren't great but they were getting better
After the ottomans blocked the Europeans trade routes to the Indian subcontinent and the rest of Asia Europe had to find an ocean route around Africa which put them in contact with many indigenous populations which the Europeans would colonize and enslave in order to exploit the routes they had to take to get to Asia <span />
A federal banking system
Securities Bonds giving the government influx in money
