See back then farming was really important and they weren't really industrialized uuntil after the civil war.
Southern states were known as the cotton kingdom because the cotton population in the south was rapidly growing. Rich plantation owners would grow cotton and sell them to the New England region to make clothes etc.
HELOT is <span>the Spartan name for a captive worker</span>
He was an Indian soldier who was heavily involved in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He was viewed as a modern hero in India but the British saw him as only a traitor.