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-used steamships and rail roads to transport crops easier

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-revolved around the wealth classes of planters
- visits between friends became major social events.
-there were a few schools and churches.

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-based on agriculture
-southern farmers produced about 10,000 bales of cotton.
-in the first 60 years, the slave population quadrupled.
- they were against tariffs.

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-industries and towns grew at a slow pace
-many small towns along the river
-only a few large cities developed trading centers

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-made up of Europeans (mostly English & Scotish-Irish descent)
-enslaved Africans
-12 million people, 1/4 of the people owned slaves

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-fertile, rich soil
-swamps

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- warm & sunny
-hot summers
-mild winters
-heavy rainfall