US History: The Rise of the South, 1815-1860

Review the events of the period “The Rise of the South, 1815-1860” in the history of the United States.

How did the South’s social development and structure differ from that of the North because of the institution of slavery? How did Native peoples respond to encroachments on their lands and southern expansion? What tensions emerged among slaveholders and non-slaveholders in the Old South? What was the relationship between slavery and the global and domestic economy? What was the impact of slave resistance in the first half of the nineteenth century?