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The South was largely agrarian.  A Southern boast, "Cotton is king!" became very true by the 1850's, as cotton was grown, harvested, and shipped to market in vast quantities.  The number of bales in 1849 was 2 million; by 1859 it had jumped to 5.7 million, amounting to more than half of all American exports and seven-eighths of the total amount of cotton in the world. (TL 1, pg 10)

The South was largely agrarian.  A Southern boast, "Cotton is king!" became very true by the 1850's, as cotton was grown, harvested, and shipped to market in vast quantities.  The number of bales in 1849 was 2 million; by 1859 it had jumped to 5.7 million, amounting to more than half of all American exports and seven-eighths of the total amount of cotton in the world. (TL 1, pg 10)

Southern life was set by a landed gentry, the small minority of well-to-do planters.  They practiced a cultivated chivalry, kindness towards those of inferior status, a code of honor among equals, and a gallantry towards women.   

Southern life was set by a landed gentry, the small minority of well-to-do planters.  They practiced a cultivated chivalry, a code of honor among equals, and a gallantry towards women.  However, this attitude was undermined by their reliance on [[slavery]] as the underpinning of their economic dominance.

The money made from cotton was spent on goods manufactured in the North, as well as imports from [[Europe]].  They had a taste for well-bred horses, quality firearms, foxhounds, and the belles from fine Southern families.  And they also studied assiduously the arts of war, often spending large sums of money to send themselves or their sons to military schools.  One [[Mississippi]] planter, Jefferson Davis, remarked that only in the South "did a gentlemen go to a military academy who did not intend to follow the profession of arms." (TL 1, pg 12)

The money made from cotton was spent on goods manufactured in the North, as well as imports from [[Europe]].  They had a taste for well-bred horses, quality firearms, foxhounds, and the belles from fine Southern families.  And they also studied assiduously the arts of war, often spending large sums of money to send themselves or their sons to military schools.  One [[Mississippi]] planter, Jefferson Davis, remarked that only in the South "did a gentlemen go to a military academy who did not intend to follow the profession of arms." (TL 1, pg 12)