Assertion: cotton | /r/CapableOf | attract millions of settlers
Facets:
value: into the southwest
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Cotton attracted millions of settlers into the Southwest; southern demand for foodstuffs helped bring population into the Old Northwest; eastern merchants found some of their best customers in the cotton belt; New England textile manufacturers and workers relied for their well-being on the South's chief export; and in the last three antebellum decades, cotton provided well over half the nation's exports.