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- 10,000 miles of railroad (cannot compare to North's vast railroad system)
- crops were transported to the North and to European markets by steamboats

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- visits between friends in different plantations were major events
- fox hunting, dancing, horse racing, watching cockfights
- unorganized education and religion

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-based on agriculture
- cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar cane, and indigo were grown in great quantities
- relied on cash crops, supported by slave labor
- cotton industry was important

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- farms spread out in separate communities
-numerous small towns along river banks and the coasts
- few large cities developed as trading centers
- plantations

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- Europeans, (mostly English and Scotch-Irish) and slaves
- 12 million (1/3 are slaves)
- mostly farmers, rich or poor
- 1/4 of population owned slaves
-the other 3/4 were independent and tenant farmers, laborers, or frontier families

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- Warm, humid summers, mild winters, heavy rainfall
- many broad, slow-moving navigable rivers
-ports
-plains and swamps
-farmland and forests