what were some of the crops grown before the Civil War?
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cotton, tabacco, wheat
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..corn...grew large crops of corn... according to a source I read.\n\nIt is true that many sites of the towns of the ancient tribes who built the mounds of the Mississippi valley were found in dense forests and their earthworks were overgrown with trees of a large size when they were first seen by white men. Their extensive earthworks, such as that at Fort Ancient, indicate an extensive population. \n\nThey were too numerous to live by hunting and fishing alone, and they as well as the more recent doubtless grew large crops of corn.
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Hey, I am from the South....and his response was widely known!  It was called The Civil War....the south raised taxes on its goods, ie cotton, tobacco.  Also, he had been misinformed on why the south seceded.
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I am a native Okie and took Oklahoma history in high school.  During the Civil War Oklahoma was not yet a state of the Union.  It was called Indian Territory, occupied by several tribes with assigned tribal lands.  Indian Territory was neutral during the Civil War.  Some fought for the Northern Yanks and some fought for the Southern Rebels.  I would consider Oklahoma today to be Southern.\n1. Onced and twiced are words. \n2. Coldbeer is one word. \n3. People actually grow and eat okra. \n4. Green grass DOES burn. \n5. Fix-in-to is one word. \n6. There ain't no such thing as "lunch". There is only breakfast, dinner and then there's supper. \n7. "Ice tea" is appropriate for all meals, and you start drinking it when you are one or so. \n8. You can switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.\n9. Stores don't have bags. They have sacks. \n10. You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" are. \nand many more upon request.
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There is evidence that the potato was being cultivated in Peru and Bolivia, around 2,000 years ago. It was an unpromising plant, growing at high altitudes in South America. According to the Oxford Companion to Food, potatoes were "small, misshapen, and knobby tubers, of many colors, and a bitter taste." There are many varieties of wild potato, some growing at altitudes as high as 13,000 feet (almost 4,000 meters). Some are almost frost-resistant and grow near the snowline. Wild potatoes are still eaten in South America, called "native potatoes" or papas criollas.  \n\nThe first Europeans encountered the potato in 1537 in what is now Colombia. Spanish forces under Jimenez de Quesada came into a village--the natives had unaccountably fled--and found maize, beans, and little knobby tubers which they called "truffles." They described these "truffles" as "of good flavor, a delicacy to the Indians and a dainty dish even for Spaniards." Potatoes were brought to Spain and Italy during the 1550s. They were small and bitter, and not a popular food. That variety did not grow well in the warm Spanish and Italian climates. Only through careful breeding were larger, less bitter, more adaptable potatoes grown. Today, the Seed Savers Exchange offers over 650 varieties of potatoes. \n\nThe word potato comes from the Haitian word "batata" which refers to a variety of sweet potatoes. The word came into Spanish as "patata." When the later variants (called papas by the natives) were found, they were also called "patata," and the word made its way into English as potato. The slang usage "spud" derives from the spade-like tool used to dig 'em out. \n\nThe arrival of the potato in Britain and Ireland is unclear, attributed to both Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake, but generally agreed to be in the 1590s. The Protestants in northern Ireland and Scotland refused to plant them, since they were not mentioned in the Bible. The Catholic Irish overcame this obstacle by sprinkling them with holy water.
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Probably years ago on farms.
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Here you go\nhttp://www.pbs.org/civilwar/
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Soybeans are good N fixing plants.  In a normal crop rotation, it's common practice to plant corn after beans.  Corn uses a heck of a lot of N, and it will grow well without adding addition N (urea, ammonium nitrate, dung, etc).  the following year milo, wheat or sorghum is planted.  they use less N.  after that year, the field is usually left fallow and then planted into beans again the following year.
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Rice.\nHomegrown vegis.\nPork, sometimes.\n\nAll food was rationed.  The Japanese used the rationing both to distribute food and to quash Resistance.
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Well that is complex. But to start off before the war. The north and the south differed greatly. The south was a farming area(mostly very labor intensive products like cotton) hence the need for slavery in the south's eyes. Where the north was mostly industrial compared to the south. So more machines and less hand labor. The reason this is important is because a factory can be rebuild. But farm land takes a lot of money to redo and a lot of time to start producing again. Well after the war the South lost its way of life and it lost it way of surviving. After the war the south was pretty well destroyed.  The farms and there crops were gone burned, destroyed, or used by the union forces. Also after the war the south was occupied by northern troops for many years to come. But southern people at the time also believed they were right on the issue of slavery. That is part of the reason the civil war happened. But basically it all of this combined as to why I believe the south is still hung up on the civil war.
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i would recommend this wikipedia site.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_war\n\nhope this helps =)\n\n-unpredicktaboh-
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Presidential Reconstruction\n\na. the South was the main battleground of the Civil War\n\n  I.The War’s Aftermath\n\na. war had destroyed property, cities, men, morale, etc.\naa. 2/3 of southern shipping and 9,000 miles of railroad destroyed\nab. 1 out of every 5 white men in the South had been killed\nb. farmers and other poor whites returned home to find their farms in ruins, their livestock dead, no jobs available, and no way to make a living\nc. plantation owners lost slave labor worth about $3 billion\nca. many lost their plantations and all of their money\nd. newly freed slaves had to provide for their needs for the first time in their lives\nda. this was difficult in the South’s wrecked economy and climate of racial discrimination\ne. Federal government’s effort to repair the south and restore southern states to the Union was known as Reconstruction\nf. two issues lay at the heart of Reconstruction:\n1. the future of political & economic power for freed slaves\n2. the future of North-South political and economic relations\n\n  II.Two Reconstruction Plans\n\nLincoln’s Plan\na. Prodigal Son Plan/Ten Percent Plan\naa. tone of forgiveness\n1. offered a pardon to any Confederate who would take an oath of allegiance to the Union & accept federal policy on slavery\n2. denied pardons to Confederates who had killed black war prisoners\n3. allowed each state to hold a constitutional convention only after 10% of the voters who voted in 1860 had sworn allegiance to the Union\n4. states could then hold elections and resume full participation in the Union\nb. Radical Republicans in Congress saw Lincoln’s plan as a threat to their authority\nba. wanted to punish the south\nbb. offered their own plan called the Wade-Davis Bill\nbc. required southern states to repudiate Confederate debt\nbd. required ex-Confederates to take an oath of loyalty\nJohnson’s Plan\na. Andrew Johnson somewhat followed Lincoln’s plan\n1. pardoned southerners who swore allegiance to the Union\n2. allowed each state to hold a constitutional convention\n3. states were required to void secession, abolish slavery, and ratify the 13th Amendment\n4. states could then hold elections and resume full participation in the Union\nb. Johnson’s plan made it possible for former high ranking Confederate officials to hold positions of power in reconstructed southern governments\n\nIII.The Taste of Freedom\n\na. to help the black southerners, Congress created the Freedmen’s Bureau\nb. gave out clothing, medical supplies, and meals to black and white war refugees\nc. built schools and helped provide education for freedmen\n\n\nChapter 13 Section 2 [p.p. 385-390]  Congressional Reconstruction\n\n  I.Black Codes\n\na. southern legislatures passed laws restricting the rights of blacks\nb. North saw black codes as evidence the South sought to keep freedmen in a legally inferior and economically dependent status\n\n II.Turning Point: Fourteenth Amendment\n\na. Radical Republicans in Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 outlawing black codes and giving black men “full and equal benefit of all laws”\naa. Pres. Johnson saw the Civil Rights Act of 1866 as an instrument to provoke racial disharmony\nab. Johnson vetoed it\nb. Radical Republicans began to take over Reconstruction\nc. June 1866, Congress passed 14th Amendment\nca. gave citizenship to blacks\n\nIII.Radical Reconstruction\n\na. moderate and radical Republicans began to form an alliance against Johnson after his vetoes of the Civil Rights Act and the Freedmen’s Bureau bill\nb. Radical Republicans like Charles Sumner believed the Confed. states had ceased to exist as states and must be treated as conquered territory\nc. Congress passed Reconstruction Act of 1867\nca. divided the South into 5 districts\ncb. placed the South under military rule\ncc. ordered southern states to create new constitutions\ncd. gave blacks in the South the right to vote (universal manhood suffrage)\nce. temporarily prohibi
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This sounds like a homework question to me. Sorry, I won't help you. I feel you need to read BOTH and you come up with the answer. You need to know these things.\n\nI will tell you this. The North distorted the truth about the Civil War or War between the States.  The war was NOT fought because of slavery. The north had slaves too. They were fighting over textiles, cotton, land, resources it was all economic.
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There are so many. The signing of the Constitution of course, but if the Union hadn't won the Civil War, things would definitely be different. Those are the ones I thought of right away.
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http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/agriculture_pre.html\n\nhttp://www.onderzoekinformatie.nl/en/oi/nod/onderzoek/OND1276918/\n\nhttp://www.sare.org/highlights/2006/farm_systems.htm
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C.  A very small percentage of Southerners owned slaves (2-3%).  Most men who  fought for the South left behind women and children to tend to crops and livestock alone.
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The Union Army had much more funding for developing repeating weapons such as leaver action rifles, the Gatling gun and the like.  By the late war their technological advantage was substantial.\n\nThe south acted as 13 different countries for accusations (each state bought stuff for their army) purposes while the north acted as one organization.