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This text explores the intricate socioeconomic dynamics of the pre-Civil War South, where hard work was believed to lead to wealth, yet a stark division existed between the few wealthy plantation owners and the majority of poor farm workers. The region's geography, characterized by mild winters and hot, humid summers, was conducive to agriculture but suffered from deforestation and unfavorable conditions in some areas. Transportation methods included steam boats and improved roads, facilitating trade. The economy was largely dominated by plantation agriculture, fueled by the cotton gin and the reliance on enslaved labor.
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society Believed that hard work would lead to wealth, little people with money or power, very dirty and most people lived on farms. Geography mild winters and long hot humid summers, good from farming and gets plenty rain lots of plains, with swamps and forests. Geography Frozen winters and hot, humid summers suffers from deforestation, jagged coasts and valleys, bad for farming Transportation Still used steam boars to go up river, as it was relatively cheap, and made new Orleans, one of the few big cites in the south south North Society Measured wealth on land and slaves, white farms/workers in the middle, few rich plantation owners at the top, and slaves at the bottom. Transportation Made better roads made canals , and used steam powered engines to go up river. And used steam power engines in trains Economy Lots of inventiveness, shifting into using machines, many wealthy industrialists Economy Mostly plantation owners and agrarians , made the “cotton gin” machine, and need used slaves.
