The economy of the upcountry South depended on:

Who triumphed at the Alamo in March 1836?

Unlike theological seminaries that trained men for the clergy, female academies prepared women:

Most runaway enslaved people:

For this question, refer to the following excerpt.   In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. . . . Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement. It constitutes the very mud-sill of society and of political government. . . . Fortunately for the South, she found a race adapted to that purpose to her hand. A race inferior to her own, but eminently qualified in temper, in vigor, in docility, in capacity to stand the climate, to answer all her purposes. We use them for our purpose, and call them slaves. . . .   The Senator from New York said yesterday that the whole world had abolished slavery. Aye, the name, but not the thing; . . . for the man who lives by daily labor, and scarcely lives at that, and who has to put out his labor in the market, and take the best he can get for it; in short, your whole hireling class of manual laborers and “operatives,” as you call them, are essentially slaves. The difference between us is, that our slaves are hired for life and well compensated; there is no starvation, no begging, no want of employment among our people, and not too much employment either. Yours are hired by the day, not cared for, and scantily compensated, which may be proved in the most painful manner, at any hour in any street in any of your large towns. . . .     South Carolina Senator James Henry Hammond, Speech to the Senate, March 4, 1858   The excerpt above was most likely written as a result of

For which of the following reasons did New York’s state government fund the building of the Erie Canal in 1817?

Why did the emancipation of slaves proceed very slowly in the northern states during and after the Revolution?

Which definition describes the infamous Trail of Tears of the 1830s?

Which of these did elite Americans embrace after the Industrial Revolution in order to set themselves apart from other groups of Americans?

How did the California gold rush that began in 1849 affect Native Americans in California?