Ch 14 Sec 2

Why did industry remain a minor part of the southern economy after the 1840s?

• Planters received tax cuts to cultivate crops

• Planters preferred to perform manual labor

• Both England and the North could produce goods more cheaply

• The South did not have the resources to set up factories

Many people believed that the growth of the cotton trade

• brought global power

• made the South poor

• encouraged other countries to attack southern states

• kept the region from expanding

The South's main foreign trading partner was

• the North

• Great Britain

• Germany

• France

The major port city of the interior United States was

• Boston

• New Orleans

• Savannah

• Charleston

Some people feared that trading cotton with other nations was making the South too dependent on 

• overland shipping

• domestic goods

• foreign products

• Mexico

Match the following

• factors

• Farmers who grew their crops far away from ports used the _________ to transport their goods to ports.

• Ohio & Mississippi Rivers

• The nation's leader in the sugar industry was ________.

• tobacco

• The South's first cash crop had been ________.

• Louisiana

• Crop brokers called ________ managed the trade between planters and their customers.