Question

2. Why did farmers in the cotton belt resent their relationship to the North?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Southern cotton farmers were dependent on textile mills in the North to process their cotton and on Northern banks for loans. They also resented the activities of northern abolitionists.

Answer 2

They had to rely on northern banking institutions for loans as they expanded their landholdings and improved the technology on their farms/plantations.

They also had to rely on the textile mills of the North as the markets for their raw cotton, which led to the factory owners making more money from the cotton than the planters did.