Economic development in the South

1. What led to the decline of tobacco as the leading source of income for the South?


2. How was the production of cotton linked to westward expansion?

3. Why were sugar, long staple cotton, and tobacco not as profitable as short staple cotton?

4. What role did "factors" play in the economy of the South?

5. Why did railroad expansion in the South not lead to the economic boom it caused in the North?

6. How is "De Bow's Review" an example of the economic subordination of the South to the North?

7. What factors led the North and South to go, economically speaking, in two different directions?