African American Geographic Conditions

Since many conflicted with the views of other groups, people migrated to areas of religious tolerance such as Rhode Island. Also Pennsylvania became another popular destination. The South contained a lot of farms, which needed workers. At first, farm owners would bring over indentured servants and later slaves. The slave trade became a large market in the South because of the scarce work population. The climate and abundance of work contributed to the number of slaves needed.

In the South, it was very well known for slaves to be working in plantation fields. The often would work cultivating cotton, tobacco, and sugar. Tobacco was a very popular cash crop, but died out due to the harsh conditions it would give the soil. Moreover, southern states were referred to as Cotton Kingdom. The reason being is because in the southern states, cotton was the major cash crop they grew. In addition, more than 50% of the cotton was grown in the south. Additionally, the culture in the South was quite different compared to the slaves that were in the North. The southern slave states culture was determined by plantation owners and families. The slaves were not authorized to be educated, and only the plantation owners had the right to be educated. They were not allowed to attend school and their culture revolved around the plantations. To add in, their economy revolved around the agricultural plantations. The southern grew cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar cane, and indigo. Many of

The Southern Colonies had hopes of creating profit from the export of agricultural goods when they developed a plantation economy; farms would grow single crops, such as rice and tobacco. However, as the agriculture business grew, so did the demand for more workers, but they needed a cheap source labor to rely on. The idea of slavery was brought up, but the Southern Colonies could not enslave the Native Americans because they became difficult due to their independence. As a result, African slaves were used because of how easy it was to enslave them. Many African slaves were taken from their homes, and put in a foreign place; this left them defenseless and afraid. The slave population grew largely, and became a steady source for many single

In the south, for social, they still had problems with race. New laws made it hard for southern African Americans to enjoy the improvements of transportation. Politically, there were laws that allowed segregation and made it really hard for African Americans to enjoy their free life. economically, although the south remained mostly agricultural the south began to develop timber industries, also because there main source of profit was slaved, after slavery was abolished that took away a lot of the South’s major income, also iron and coal deposits in the southern Appalachian mountains gave rise to steel production in Alabama.

The Southern Colonies developed race-based slavery because of the rising need to increase labor and to decrease costs. The move toward profit-based agriculture over subsistence farming meant that there was an expanding need for laborers, which would increasingly expand with success, necessitating a further increase of cheap labor. In addition to being labor intensive, the Southern crops: rice, tobacco, sugarcane, and indigo were grown for cash rather than for immediate need. Technically there is no such thing as enough with a goal as abstract as profit and so would not end with a fulfilled, finite, need but rather with means and a desire to expand. With profit as a goal expansion is only limited by available, usable, acreage and becomes a goal in and of itself. With expansion as a goal, a self-replenishing and unpaid workforce allows for greater profit and thus greater expansion. It was a snowball effect creating a market for humans.

The original settlers of Jamestown hoped to find wealth through gold (Doc. F). The wealthy planters built plantations and they went looking for indentured servants to work for their labor. The best land was no longer available to them as they were forced to move farther West (Docs. G & H). Slavery, was built in the Chesapeake as the main source of labor. The fact that slavery became the social structure of the South and not in the North was the most biggest regional difference which brought the Civil

The Southern Colonies depended on agriculture for their economy. The crops required a lot of hard work so by the 1700s, they started using African slaves as a main source of labor. People of the Southern Colonies used wood and tar for building ships and some colonies traded with Indians who were local for deerskins to sell.

In order for them to generate a more lucrative business, the south used slaves as a labor source to produce crops, which had the largest impact on the southern lifestyle. This in turn boosted the south's economy, which allowed the the southern life to thrive and create a distinction between themselves and the other economies of North America. Whilst slaves dominated the southern economy, slaveholders only accounted for about two to three percent of the southern population. This small, yet powerful percentage of individuals were the people successful in agricultural business and the driving force behind the usage and continuation of slavery in the South. Without slaves there would be no cotton, tobacco, or sugar production and without these integral items, the Southern economy would absolutely collapse. The South depended on slaves to fuel their economy which in turn allowed for slavery to dominate the economy and be the sole resource of the South.

In the early years of South America, natives relied on farming to provide an adequate amount of food for their population. While the use of plantations helped influx the trade industries due to the surplus in products produced by the plantations. Sugar was a major export in the South

The slave trade began because the demand for agricultural goods became too high and the owners of these farms did not have enough workers. The goals of the slave trade were to transform the labor systems in the colonies, to fuel international trade, and to enrich merchants, planters, and their families and partners. The rise of slavery reshaped the South because it allowed for the expanded cultivation of cash crops like tobacco, rice, and indigo, which [brings] high profits for planters as well as merchants. With more workers the planters were able to produce more merchandise, which in the end made them more money. The planters were selfish to think it was not morally wrong to hire these sick, and humiliated Africans to do their dirty work for him.

Slavery, the treatment of people as property to be manipulated and used, manifested in the South primarily due to its agricultural superiority over the North and depopulation of Native Americans. David Shi and George Tindall, historians and authors of the textbook, America: The Essential Learning Edition, mention how unlike the cold northern climate, the warm southern climate favored the growth of cash crops, popular crops such as cotton that were profitable. This led to the emergence of plantations, farms strictly focusing on making a profit from the crops. Alas, these plantations required a large labor force, creating a

Slavery was most common in the Southern region because it was an agricultural region, therefore, without slavery, the South could not be able to compete with the North, which was an industrial region (Morgan, 2003). Many African-Americans were taken away from their native soil to go and work as a labor force in the South. As a result, the South became very much dependent on slave labor and this caused the widespread of slavery, something that could not be avoided because, through slave labor, the slaveholders made large profits. Therefore, we can say, slavery was unavoidable in the South because, the farm owners needed people to work on their farms in order for them to be able to produce food both for sale and for use. Slave labor was the only way the Southerners could be able to compete with the fast advancing North and become more productive.

Furthermore, the economic differences between the North and South were developed and became another issue. The South were agricultural states and rely upon on cultivation rather than industrialization (Egnal, 2009). Nevertheless, following the discovery of the cotton flower, cotton expanded the need for slave ownerships and this is how cotton became the main crop of the South. The South has been able to produce about 90% of the world 's supply of cotton. The increase of cotton was the cause for the South 's reliance on the plantation system as well as the need for slavery.

African tribes and their traditions were often challenged by the European nations during the colonialism and imperialism process. The tribes often adapted to the European customs and became less of its traditional self as the European influence became greater. Some of the changes were for the better, like better medical care and more industrialism. However, most of the changes uprooted the pre-existing social structure and, inevitably, the local government system with it. This often caused civil unrest and political instability as many Africans attempted to retain the traditions that was once prominent in the society. However, the traditional systems slowly faded away with the introduction of more efficient and more European accepted systems.

The South’s economy depended on the crops they grew such as, cotton, rice, and sugar, which encouraged the need of slavery. Up to 70 percent of their exports were to Britain and France. With the new western states entering the U.S. as Free states through popular sovereignty, and having a new party of Republicans in Congress, the South began to fear their rights of having slavery. They believed the