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Bookmark or Share- Why Was Cotton ‘King’? - PBSThe most commonly used phrase describing the growth of the American economy in the 1830s and 1840s was “Cotton Is King.” We think of this slogan today as describing the plantation economy of...
- Slavery and King Cotton – US History I: Precolonial to Gilded AgeAmerican cotton made up two-thirds of the global supply, and production continued to increase. By the time of the Civil War, South Carolina politician James Hammond confidently proclaimed that the North could never threaten the South because “cotton is king.”
- King Cotton - Wikipedia" King Cotton " is a slogan that summarized the strategy used before the American Civil War (of 1861–1865) by secessionists in the southern states (the future Confederate States of America) to claim the feasibility of secession and to prove there was no need to fear a war with the northern states.
- 27a. The Crowning of King Cotton - US HistoryEli Whitney's invention made the production of cotton more profitable, and increased the concentration of slaves in the cotton-producing Deep South. This phenomenal and sudden explosion of success of the cotton industry gave slavery a new lease on life.
- King Cotton and the Economy of the Old South - ThoughtCoKing Cotton was a phrase coined in the years before the Civil War to refer to the economy of the American South. The southern economy was particularly dependent on cotton. And, as cotton was very much in demand, both in America and Europe, it created a special set of circumstances.
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