Why was cotton referred to as "King" by the 1830s in America?

What is a belief in the superiority of native-born inhabitants over immigrants, in particular, an anti-immigrant movement that began in the early 1800s in the U.S.?

Identify the constructed waterway that connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River and transformed New York into an economic powerhouse of the young United States:

According to the 1860 census, the American economy had greater total investments in ____________ than in any other commodity.

What is the oldest railroad in the United States, originally built to help Maryland compete with canals in other states?

What is the system, designed by the inventor of the telegraph, of long and short electrical bursts that made the telegraph network a viable, long-distance communication system?

Name the method of manufacturing involving powered machinery, usually run by water, that allowed the use of unskilled labor and greater output than in the artisan tradition:

Which term refers to the process of a society changing from predominantly agricultural production to a society based on factory production?

What factory system was used to mass-produce textiles, primarily in New England, that relied on young women workers who lived in factory communities?

What term refers to an independent, skilled craftsperson?

This Massachusetts Supreme Court decision of 1842 established the legality of labor unions within that state:

When he authorized the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, Thomas Jefferson predicted that it would take ________ years for American settlers to reach present-day St. Louis, Missouri.

What is the early-nineteenth-century belief that women were the guardians of family and religious virtue within the home and, by extension, for the entire society?

What term was used for the lower South in the antebellum period to describe the economy and culture built on cotton production?

Identify the set of beliefs, associated with white Southern men of the nineteenth century, that emphasized respect, reputation, and the protection of women:

I was the South Carolina senator who coined the expression "cotton is king." Who am I?

What term refers to the wealthy slaveholding plantation owners of the South who dominated their society despite their limited number (5-10% of the population)?

Which of the following terms was coined by historian Ira Berlin to describe the forced movement of slaved within the U.S., primarily from the upper South to the cotton states, especially Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi?

Name the small farmer in the antebellum South who worked his own soil and (usually) possessed no slave labor: