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 * Profitability** In the Old South was mostly from the cotton/slavery system. While the plantation economy back then was booming, it probably limited the South's development in the end. The cotton economy based on slave labor prospered until the Civil War, as British demand continued to rise and as more land and more workers were used in cotton production.



**Question:** //The slave labor economy prospered until when?// __**a. Civil War**__ b. War of 1820 c. War in Iraq d. Revolutionary War

http://www.history.iastate.edu/agprimer/Page28.html

**Jacksonians**- Even though Andrew Jackson was president only from 1829 to 1837, his influence on American politics was pervasive both before and after his time in office. The years from about 1824 to 1840 have been called the “Age of Jacksonian Democracy” and the “Era of the Common Man.” **Jacksonians** were people similar to Jeffersonians, who lead the political movement toward greater democracy for the common man. //Andrew Jackson// **Question:** // Jacksonian // Democracy was the political philosophy in the U.S. during when? __**a. 1820s to 1840s**__ b. 2040s to 3940s c. 1800s to 1820s d.1950s to 1980s

//**DeBow's Review**// was a widely circulated magazine of "agricultural, commercial, and industrial progress and resource" in the American South during the upper middle of the 19th century, from 1846 until 1884. It got its name from its first editor, **J.B.D. BeDeau**, who wrote a lot in the early issues. However, there were several various writers over the years. R. G. Barnwell and Edwin Q. Bell, of Charleston, appeared as editors in March 1867, after DeBow's death, and W. M. Burwell was editor from March 1868 to December 1879.
 * J.B.D. BeDeau -- DeBow's Review**

//J.B.D. BeDeau//

Question: //Who was the magazine's first editor?// a. Allen Iverson b. Edwin Q. Bell __**c. J.B.D. BeDeau**__ d. Andrew Jackson

quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/browse.journals/debo.html

**Frederick Law Olmsted** was an American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer. Olmsted took leave as director of Central Park to work as Executive Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a precursor to the Red Cross in Washington, D.C. He tended to the wounded during the American Civil War. In 1862, during Union General George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign, Olmsted headed the medical effort for the sick and wounded at White House in New Kent County, where there was a ship landing on the Pamunkey River. On the home front, Olmsted was one of the six founding members of the Union League Club of New York.



**Question:** //What did Olmsted do during the Civil War?// b. Freed slaves c. Was a general d. Nothing
 * __a. Helped to heal the wounded__**

www.fredericklawolmsted.com/Lifeframe.htm