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By the 1800s the Northern states began to industrialize and export manufactured goods. -
Tobacco was the important money crop, and almost every ship that sailed from a plantation wharf carried hogsheads of the ‘delightful weed’ in its hold. -
President Thomas Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory by purchasing it from France in 1803 for $15 million dollars. -
New technologies on the farm and in transportation result in growing agricultural exports. -
The average total U.S. population was 17,069,453, and farmers made up 69% of the labor force. -
Northern farmers produced a variety of crops and livestock, sometimes supplemented by craftwork. -
It offered 160 acres of free land to settlers who would farm it for five years. -
The Civil War destroyed much of the South and its plantations.