HW due 4/30

Please read pages 294-298.
Answer the following questions:
1. What was "the most important economic development in the South of the mid-nineteenth century?" What caused this, and what was its economic impact?
2. What were the agricultural regions of the South, and what crops were grown in each?
3. How did cotton become "king" in the South? What did this mean for the development of the region?
4. What role did the "business class" in the South play in the region's economic development? What elements was most important in this group, and why?
5. What is meant by the antebellum South had a "colonial" economy?