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- steamboats & railroads

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- based on agriculture
- cotton,tobacco,rice, sugar, cane, & indigo were grown in great quantities

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- made up of Europeans
- 12 million population
- 1/3 of whom were slaves

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- small, wealthy, close of planters& the agricultural system they controlled.
- few schools & churches

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- most lived on farms
- coastal plains
- small towns with banks of rivers

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- navigable rivers
- Gulf and Atlantic coasts
- fertile, rich soil swamps
- forests

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- warm weather and sunny
- long humid summers
- mild winters