Even after the War of 1812 there was no textile industry in the USA, most of the South's cotton and tobacco went to England's factories for textile production. "Cotton became known as “King Cotton” in the South, and the Southern United States became the chief cotton supplier in the 1800s. In 1860 alone, over 60 percent of American exports was raw cotton." Up until the 1840s there were few cotton mills in the USA, almost all raw cotton was exported to England. There were so few US mills that in 1850, ONE mill, Boston Manufacturing Company, was responsible for one fifth of the total US textile production. That's how small scale the US textile production was before the Civil War. By 1860 the South had become meaningless economically and politically to the USA.