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Using your knowledge of Social Studies and the sources, in a well written essay, analyze how new innovations improved Louisiana's economy during the Antebellum Period.

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New Orleans in the 1850s shows many boats, including steamships, traveling up and down the Mississippi River and docked at piers. It also shows smoke rising from the chimneys of buildings, some of which housed manufacturing companies. amounts of sugar, in hogsheads (hhds), that were produced in Louisiana between 1823 and 1854 for domestic use and export. A hogshead is a large barrel, at least four feet high, that holds between 1,400 and 1,700 pounds of sugar. the major types of manufacturing in Louisiana in 1860 for parishes that had at least fourteen manufacturing establishments. Only seven of the forty-eight parishes in the state had fourteen or more manufacturing establishments in 1860. the monetary value, in millions of dollars, of exports from leading states between 1800 and 1850.

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