The American Civil War was a major event in the history of the United States. It changed the internal structure of American society and had a greater impact than the revolution. The basis of the Civil War was due to slavery. He politically overthrew the once-dominated planter elite and its slave class. During the first decades of the nineteenth century, planters in the American South were unwilling to follow the path of gradual emancipation that had swept through the Northern states. The southern and northern economies continue to move in opposite directions. By 1791, they were already producing 2 million pounds of cotton, which caused the British textile industry to have a large appetite for cotton. This caused the North and South to profit from growing cotton. This caused the Southern states to go from eight to fifteen states. The population of the South has grown more than fivefold. Growing demand for cotton supported this expansion. Between 1830 and 1860, world demand for cotton consumption increased by 5% per year. Cotton experts helped balance international trade and the country's finances, to maximize profits southern farmers, planters, imported food from the Northwest and pushed to use vast lands to grow cotton. Plantations were a way of life in the South where the English arrived in the 1670s. in South Carolina and expand the plantation. With this they brought with them their African slaves which later increased to 263,000. Therefore, plantations and the institution of slavery spread throughout the South. Large plantations and the slave labor system shaped the culture of the Southern colonies. Plantation owners had time for education and had money to buy things from England. The owners of the largest plantations because... at the center of the paper... it is an almost challenging obstacle. They produced too little cotton to cover shipping costs to a processing plant, most likely in the North or England, their main consumers. Within ten years, cotton became the South's major crop. In 1790, before the invention of the cotton gin, approximately 3,000 bales of cotton were produced in the United States. Ten years later 100,000 bales were produced. The Virginia Company intended to send cotton plants to Jamestown in 1607, but the rapid emergence of tobacco as the colony's cash crop doomed early cotton cultivation despite efforts to encourage it by both governors William Berkeley and Edmund Andros. Even the depression in the tobacco economy from 1702 to 1708 failed to convince planters to abandon tobacco as cotton depleted the soil and required so much manual labor as to make it unprofitable..