American History: A Survey 10/e   Alan Brinkley
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Objectives

1. The significance of the shift of economic power from the "upper South" to the "lower South."

2. How cotton became "king," and the role it played in shaping the "southern way of life."

3. How trade and industry functioned under the southern agricultural system.

4. The structure of southern society, and the role of an enslaved people in that society.

5. The place of the South, with its increasing reliance on King Cotton, in the nation's economy.

6. The continuing historical debate over the South, its "peculiar institution," and the effects of enslavement on the blacks.

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