Key term for AQA GCSE History, used in America: Expansion and Consolidation (1840–1895).
The agricultural region extending through the American South where cotton was the predominant cash crop.
Cotton Belt appears in AQA GCSE History revision content for Period Studies, especially America: Expansion and Consolidation (1840–1895) and Background to the Civil War.
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