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Southern United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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History of Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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With the development of cash-crop agriculture in the trans-Allegheny West,. 103. The first major transportation project linking the East to the ...
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Students of economic development are in need of many works such ... of a forthcoming volume on Boston investors in the Trans-Allegheny. West during the nineteenth century. ... scale agriculture occupied 95 per cent of the population. The develop- ment of cash crops was hampered not only by an inadequate trans- ...
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leger, ed., Agriculture and National Development (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990), .... turned to cotton as a cash crop during the period.'3 ..... tion about various levels of commerce-exports, trans-Allegheny trade, .... than the exportable surplus for the West as a whole: In 1840 Missouri ...
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West Virginia is often considered Southern, because it was once part of Virginia. ... (This image depicts the original, trans-Allegheny borders of Virginia, .... and worked on the large plantations that dominated export agriculture. ... in the labor-intensive cultivation of tobacco, the first cash crop of Virginia. ...
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A Brief History of African Americans in West Virginia ... Washington College President Henry Ruffner, the son of Kanawha Valley salt industry pioneer David Ruffner and a slaveholder himself, wanted to end slavery in trans-Allegheny Virginia in order to provide more paying jobs for white workers.
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With the development of cash-crop agriculture in the trans-Allegheny West, ... the South could harvest a larger crop. ... In the 1790's a major transportation project linking the East to the trans-Allegheny West was the...
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Compared with canals, railroads ... With the development of cash-crop agriculture in the trans-Allegheny West, ... the South could harvest a larger crop.
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4) With the development of cash-crop agriculture in the trans-Allegheny West, A) subsistence farming became common. B) farmers began to support the idea of slave labor. C) farmers quickly faced mounting indebtedness.
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