Show the cotton kingdom before the civil war cotton was wa the most important single article ol of commerce produced in the united states and the term king icing cotton served to indicate that fact the region which was then known as the cotton kingdom extended a distance of more than 1000 miles from south carolina to the vicinity of 0 san antonio texas and from norak to south it varied from miles in in carolina and texas to or 70 miles in the mississippi valley it comprised an area of at about square miles |