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-long-distance transportation
-steamships and railroad
-products could more easily be sold

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-few schools and churches
-revolved around the small, wealthy class of planters

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-based on agricultural
-sold cash crops such as cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar cane, and indigo

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-lived on farms
-scattered on coastal plains and back country
-numerous small towns, few trading system

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-made up of Europeans and enslaved Africans
-reached 12 million people
-agricultural region of mostly farmers

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-fertile           -rivers
-rich soil -farmland
-swamps -forest

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-generally warm and sunny
-long, hot, humid summers
-mild winters with heavy rainfall