For what reasons did industrialization NOT take off in the South?This is from my ap us history class, much of this chapter is about slavery and...

The major reason that industry did not take off in the
South was slavery.  By the time that industry arose in the rest of the US, slavery was
so entrenched in the South that industry could not take
hold.

This is true for a number of
reasons.

First, slaves are not that well suited to the type
of work that characterizes factories.  Slaves would be too able to destroy expensive
machinery "by mistake" as a way of resistance.

Second, much
of the wealth of the South was tied up in slaves.  This wealth could not easily be
liquidated in order to buy the sorts of expensive machines that would have been
needed.

Third, the South had created its whole society
around the image of country gentlemen who had their plantations and lived a rural
lifestyle with horses and hunting and such.  This would have been ruined by a move to an
industrial system.

So the main barrier between the South
and industrialization was slavery.