AP U.S. History / Unit 4: Period 4: 1800–1848
4.13 The Society of the South in the Early Republic
Notes
The South's economy depended on cotton and slavery. Most white Southerners didn't own enslaved people, but the planter elite dominated politics. Slavery expanded into the Deep South through the domestic slave trade.
Practice
Most white Southerners in 1850:
Planter elite was small.
The domestic slave trade moved enslaved people:
Breaking families apart.
Cotton was called "King" because:
Economic power.
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