"The South and the Slavery Controversy," I

Tonight you read about the rapid expansion of slavery in the Deep South in the 19th century. Here are some questions, for your consideration:

1. Why was the Deep South called the Cotton Kingdom?
2. What role did cotton play in the economic relationship between Great Britain and the United States?
3. Describe the "Planter Aristocracy."
4. Why was the plantation system economically unstable (consider everything from "slaves of the slave system" to "the white majority").
5. Read the section called "The White Majority": what does it tell you about Southern Society before the Civil War? Do the statistics change any of your previously held assumptions?
6. Who were the so-called "mountain whites"?
7. Look at the maps that show the growth of slavery from 1820-1860. Jot down your observations.
8. Describe the social spectrum of free blacks in the United States, North and South. 

THERE WILL NOT BE A READING QUIZ ON TUESDAY.

Don't forget about your Missouri Compromise maps! A map quiz in which I ask you to identify the  24 states in 1821 and which are slave and free is on the horizon, as in, Tuesday!