Why Is Slavery So Important In The Southern States?

As slavery in the north was decreasing, slavery in the south was increasing rapidly. Ever since the textile boom in the northern states and in Europe, cotton has been a high demanding textile material. Plantation owners couldn’t work the whole plantations by themselves. The southern states depended heavily on slaves to work their plantations. The south depended heavily on slavery, and slavery was vital to the south because they needed the slave’s labor to work their plantations. This why slavery was so important to the southern political leaders. If the southern states didn’t have slavery their plantations would have most likely failed and they couldn’t produce anymore cotton. Since the northern states had industries and factories they didn’t have the need for slaves anymore. Many of the northern states had abolished slavery except the states bordering the southern states.
This is why many political leaders in the southern states thought they were being attacked by the northern states, especially by Lincoln and the Republican Party. One of the first compromises that had been accepted was the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The Missouri Compromise was the effort of Missouri not only to become a state but to become a slave state also. This upset the balance between slave and non-slave states. “They reached a boiling point after Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state, which threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave states and free states.”(History.com). In order to calm the sates down Missouri’s wishes were granted but it also admitted Maine as an anti-slave state. “To keep the peace, Congress orchestrated a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state.”(History.com). The Missouri Compromise also instituted a new amendment which created a line that separated slave states and