1) Short-staple cotton

    A) was less suited to the Deep South than was long-staple cotton.

    B) was ideally suited to the Deep South.

    C) could only be grown in the Tidewater.

    D) required expensive machinery and irrigation

2) was the major source of southern wealth and the major stimulus to national economic growth between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. 

3) Particularly disturbing to white southerners was the 1832 revolt led by . 

4) The profitability of slavery in the South depended primarily upon the tremendous demand for cotton. True False 

5) The man most responsible for making short-staple cotton cultivation economically feasible was . 

6) "Cotton was King in the Old South." White statement about cotton is true?

    A) It was grown primarily in the Upper South.

    B) It was grown only by the larger slave owners.

    C) Cultivation gradually migrated westward to new agricultural frontiers.

    D) In the South, acreage devoted to cotton planting greatly exceeded acreage devoted to any other single crop.

7) What percentage of southerners did not own slaves?

    A) 5%

    B) 25%

    C) 50%

    D) 75%

8) The "black belt" of the south takes its name from the rich quality of the soil and the number of slaves living in the region. True False