The warm and lush climate of the Southern United States makes it an ideal place for growing cash crops such as cotton and tobacco. These crops also happen to be very labour intensive, especially cotton that had to have its seeds hand picked from the cotton itself, and before the invention of the cotton gin was a long and arduous process. A quick and cheap solution to this problem is slavery. This was the main reason for slavery in the American South and the Caribbean at large. This cotton trade made the South very wealthy, and the plantation owners even wealthier. Soon the Southern economy became dependant on the cotton trade and slavery as well. This became a problem when the public of the North and much of Europe started to grow a large disdain for slavery and…show more content… Staying in the Union while not supporting it, as they still viewed the south as their brothers. They also issued a neutrality proclamation on May, 20, 1861 asking both sides to stay out of the state. Though this neutrality was quickly broken when C.S.A General Leonidas Polk took Columbus, Kentucky in the summer of the same year. In response to this violation of neutrality, Kentucky Legislature (who at this point was mostly union) passed a resolution directing the then governor Beriah Magoffin to demand Polk's immediate evacuation. Magoffin, a southern sympathizer, vetoed this demand, but the legislature overturned his veto and the demand was sent. The legislature then decided to back Union General Ulysses S. Grant and his troops stationed in Paducah, Kentucky on the grounds that the Confederacy violated their neutrality first, and so flew a Union banner over the state capitol, showing their allegiance to the Union. This was met with outrage from the southern sympathizers in the state, who argued that the only reason Polk entered the state was to counter Grant. The Legislature then passed three resolutions: one inviting Union General Robert Anderson to recruit volunteers in the state to rid Kentucky of
