Cotton Revolution during the 1800s | American History Flipped Class

Antebellum South grew rapidly in the mid-1800s. While the North was more industrial and much of national exports left from cities like New York, Boston, and Philadelphia in the early 1800s, it would be the South that would pass the North in exports with cotton. Tobacco was the number one commodity in the southern states, but with the increase in demand for cotton from the New England area and Europe, the Cotton Revolution began. This increase in demand would also increase the demand for slavery. It would take a Civil War to finally end the institution of slavery.

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