Answer the following question in paragraph form (5-7 complete sentences). Be sure to check your grammar and spelling. “Look which way you will, you see it; and see it moving. Keelboats, ships, brigs, schooners, wharves, stores, and press-houses, all appeared to be full. . . . I believe that in the three days that I was there . . . I must have heard the word cotton pronounced more than 3,000 times.”
–a visitor to Mobile, Alabama, before 1860
Read the excerpt and answer the question below

Discuss why cotton was “king” in the South before 1860.

PLEASE HURRY!!

“Look which way you will, you see it; and see it moving. Keelboats, ships, brigs, schooners, wharves, stores, and press-houses, all appeared to be full. . . . I believe that in the three days that I was there . . . I must have heard the word cotton pronounced more than 3,000 times.”

Explanation:

“Look which way you will, you see it; and see it moving. Keelboats, ships, brigs, schooners, wharves, stores, and press-houses, all appeared to be full. . . . I believe that in the three days that I was there . . . I must have heard the word cotton pronounced more than 3,000 times.”

Explanation:

an unexpected salary cut