MAKING CONNECTIONS

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MAKING CONNECTIONS

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How did cotton's profitability shape the South's antebellum development?

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How did southern white legislators and intellectuals attempt to strengthen the institution of slavery in the 1820s? What prompted them to do this?

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By 1860 legislative power was largely concentrated in the hands of slaveholders. Why were slaveholders politically dominant?