Why were the region's
rivers especially important
to southern farmers?

Cotton could be stored for longer periods of time. Why were the region's rivers especially important to southern farmers? They were trade routes and important transportation routes. The use of scientific methods to improve farming.

the nationalists wanted a strong central government so the new country wouldn't fall apart.

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social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live