Answer
About 1.3 million bales
Explanation
By 1840 United State produced about 1.3 millions bales of cotton annually By this time the United state was swept along by the global economic force created by its cotton production, the demand by cotton textile manufacturing in Europe, and New York’s financial and commercial dealing. Mississippi was one of the states that produced cotton at large capacity. Mississippi’s social and economic histories in early statehood were driven by cotton and slave labor, and the two became intertwined in America. Cotton was a labor-intensive business, and the large number of workers required to grow and harvest cotton.
